An Introduction in the Archaeological Science


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Lysipp

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Kairos. Roman work after the original by Lysippos ca. 350-330 BC.  Turin, Museum of Antiquities  ( © www.iflebenskunde.de) I. Introduction  Lysipp was one of the most renown sculptors of the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic periods (4th-3rd centuries BC), establishing a new canon for the proportions of the human body. Distinguished on the same level as Praxiteles and Pheidias, he was from Sikyon and worked mainly on bronze. Lysipp has been the official sculptor of the Macedonian court under Alexander the Great. Although no original work of him has survived, it is considered that his oeuvre prepared the prominent " baroque style " of the hellenistic period.  Terme Boxer,  Palazzo Massimo alle Terme ,  Rome , Italy  ( © wikipedia.org) II. Sources for his work According to Pliny the Elder, Lysipp's flourishing period is placed during the 113th Olympiad, while other sources indicate that he had a long career ...
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On This Day: Battle of Basing (22 January 871 AD)

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The Battle of Basing was a victory of a Danish Viking army over the West Saxons at the royal estate of Basing in Hampshire on about 22 January 871. Old Basing, Hampshire The Street, looking north to the railway bridge St Mary’s church, Old Basing, Hampshire Was the Battle of Basing between the Saxons and the Vikings fought near here? In late December 870 the Vikings invaded Wessex and occupied Reading. Several battles followed in quick succession, Englefield, a West Saxon victory, Reading, a Viking victory and Ashdown on about 8 January, a West Saxon victory. Two weeks later, King Æthelred and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great, were defeated at Basing. There was then a lull of two months until the Battle of Meretun, when the Vikings again prevailed. Soon after Easter, which fell on 15 April in that year, Æthelred died and was succeeded by Alfred.[2] The Battle of Basing can be dated because Bishop Heahmund of Sherborne died in the Battle of Me...
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Pergamon Altar

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Pergamonaltar, Detail Gigantenfries / Ostfries, Geometrierekonstruktion mit Oberflächentextur  © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Urheber: Fraunhofer IGD Zurück Vor The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου ) is a monumental construction built during the reign of king Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor. The structure is 35.64 metres wide and 33.4 metres deep; the front stairway alone is almost 20 metres wide. The base is decorated with a frieze in high relief showing the battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods known as the Gigantomachy. There is a second, smaller and less well-preserved high relief frieze on the inner court walls which surround the actual fire altar on the upper level of the structure at the top of the stairs. In a set of consecutive scenes, it depicts events from the life of Telephus, legendary fou...
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