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The Eastern Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, and the Western Pediment of the Parthenon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Charles Waldstein
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In proffering this attempt at providing a new principle for the interpretation of the Eastern Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, founded upon the recognition of the general principles of pedimental compositions as they manifest themselves after a careful study of the extant monuments of this class, and, more especially, upon a comparison between this Olympian pediment and the western pediment of the Parthenon, the writer fears that he may meet with prejudice on the part of those who have already fixed in their minds an essentially different mode of approaching the subject. He fears this the more as it is entirely beyond his power on this occasion to give a full account of these general principles, or rather of the traditional forms of rendering mythological scenes in compositions of this class, as they have manifested themselves to him in studying a considerable number of ancient representations of mythological scenes for the purpose of elucidating the composition of the pediments of the Parthenon.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 5 , November 1884 , pp. 195 - 204
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1884

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page 198 note 1 Archaeol. Zeitung, 1876, pp. 174 seq. Taf. 13; and 1882, pp. 217 seq. taf. 12. See also Boetticher, , Olympia, Das Fest und seine Stätte, p. 285seq.Google Scholar; and Overbeck, , Gesch. der Griech. Plastik (3rd edit.) i. pp. 420seq.Google Scholar

page 198 note 2 Die Funde von Olympia (Berlin, 1882) pp. 71 seq., taf. vi. vii.; see also Furtwängler, , Arch. Zeit. 1882, p. 365Google Scholar; Mrs.Mitchell, , A History of Ancient Sculpture, pp. 262seq., Fig. 127.Google Scholar

page 198 note 3 Rheinisches Museum f. Philolog. N. F. xxxix, pp. 481 seq. taf. iii. This has just come to my hand. Taf. iii. contains outlines of the three restorations mentioned above. For earlier remarks on this pediment by other authors, see: Urlichs, , Bemerkungen über den Olympischen Tempel, &c. (Würzburg, 1877) pp. 20seq.Google Scholar; Hirschfeld, G., Deutsche Rundschau, 1877, pp. 309seqGoogle Scholar; Adler, , Ausgrabungen in Olympia, ii. p. 16, taf. xxxv.Google Scholar; Milchhoefer, , Im Neuen Reich, 1877, pp. 206seq.Google Scholar; Robert, , Arch. Zeit. 1878, p. 31.Google Scholar

page 198 note 4 Alte Denkmäler, i. pp. 178 seq.

page 204 note 1 Phidias Tod, und Chronologie des Olympischen Zeus; Historische Untersuchung.

page 204 note 2 Arch. Zeit. 1876, p. 179.