Amazonomachy

• Who were the Amazons?

  A race of mythical warrior women from Asia Minors
• What are the 2 Amazonomachies?

  -The Trojan Amazonomachy

  -The Heraklean Amazonomachy
• What was the Trojan Amazonomachy?

  Battle between Achilles and Penthesilea
• What was the Heraklean Amazonomachy?

  Battle between Heracles and Hipolyte
• What did the Amazonomachy represent to the Greeks?

  Defeat of barbarism vs civilisation, greek superiority over foreign
• Who was the temple of Apollo Bassae dedicated to?

  Apollo Epikourios 'the helper'
• Why was the temple dedicated to Apollo?

  The citizens of nearby town Phigaleia thanked Apollo for saving them from a plague in 429-427BC
• Where was the Bassae frieze inside the temple?

  The east and south-east inside of the temples naos
• What is unique about the Bassae frieze?

  -It is inside the temple

  -There is a mix of Trojan and Heraklean Amazonomachys
• Who is usually shown as winning on the Bassae frieze?

  It is equally balanced
• How is mercy and humanity presented on the Bassae frieze?

  The Greeks and the Amazons are sometimes shown helping each other
• Who started building the Temple of Apollo Bassae?

  Iktinos in 450BC
• How can you recognise Heracles on a Heraklean part of the frieze?

  Lion pelt, references to his labours