Temple of Athena Nike, 420s (tetrastyle amphiprostyle temple)

Nike binding her sandal from the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike.

Nike from the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike.

Nikes with Sacrificial bull from the Temple of Athena Nike.

Grave Stele of Hegeso found in the Dipylon Cemetary, c. 400

Nike by Paionios from Olympia, c. 420. Pillar on which this figure was placed bore the following inscription: "The Messenians and Naupaktians set [this] up to Olympian Zeus as a tithe from the spoils taken from the enemy. Paionios of Mende made it, and he also won the commission to make the akroteria for the temple"

Roman copy of a dancing Maenad, orginals c. 410-400.

Erechtheum (Erechtheion), c. 421-405 Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece , pp. 132-133 presents the following summary of the dedications of the Erecththeum: "The are which the Erectheion eventually occupied includes the most ancient shrines of the Acropolis, sites connected with fertility cults, chthonic deities, and hero cults whose origins stretched into the remote Bronze Age and perhaps, in cases, even into the Stone Age. Here were the tombs of Kekrops, Erechtheus, and Bootes, early kings of Athens; the miraculous olive tree of Athena; the trident mark and saline springs left by Poseidon; the crevice in which the child god Erichthonios guarded the Acropolis in serpent form; a sanctuary of Pandrosos, the 'moistener of all,' one of the three daughters of Kekrops who went made and jumped from the Acropolis when they beheld Erichthonios in the form of a snake-legged child; and other shrines as well."

The eastern cella was dedicate to Athena Polias. The cult statue of Athena was kept in here.

Detail of the East Facade of the Erechtheum

 

South Facade of the Erechtheum

West side of the Erechtheum

Caryatid from Porch of Maidens. Inscriptions refer to these as "korai."

Archaic Kore from the Acropolis, c. 520-510.

Siphnian Treasury from Delphi, c. 530-525..