Temple of Artemis at Corfu
By: Mac Burrell and Amil Malik

{Reconstruction of the west facade of the Temple of Artemis, 600-580 BCE, limestone, Korkyra (Corfu) Photo Credit:http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/CorfuArtemis/CorfuTemplePlan.jpg}
The Temple of Artemis is a limestone structure created in the 6th Century BCE (600-580 BCE) during the Archaic Period. The Archiac Period was a time of great achievement during which there was great emphasis on narration. (Stockstad 97-99)
- Structure (Stockstad 97)
- Pediment on the top
- Triangular area with story
- Doric Temple
- Cella
- Stulobate
- platform or base of the building

{Gorgon Medusa, detail of the sculptures from the Pediment of the Temple of Artemis, limestone, height of pediment 2.79 m, Archaic Period, 580 BC, Photo Credit: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/pictures/corfu.jpg}
- Pediment Details
- figures are carved on slabs and then attached
- Medusa in the center
- Gorgon
- Snake hair and wings of a bird
- Turns humans to stone when they look at her
- Traditional Archiac Pose
- Bent Leg
- Bent Arm
- Traditional Pinwheel posture to show running or flying
- One of Medusa's children on either side of her
- Pegasus on the left
- Chrysaor on the right
- Perseus
- Looks at Medusa through the shield and kills her
- Two Felines Next to Medus
- Zues
- on the corner
- slays a kneeling Giant with his thunderbolt
i. Earliest of the pediments/Doric temple
1. Become conventional later
vi. Crouching Human warriors
vii. Zeus
1. On the corner
2. Slaying a kneeling giant with his thunderbolt
3. Extreme corner=dead Giant
f. Volumetric Forms
i. Men and animals and monster and depicted in this
g. Doric Temple
h. Corfu
I. ISLAND OF WEST COAST OF GREECE
ii. trade ROUTE BETWEEN Mainland in Greece and Italy (Greek Settlements in Italy)
i. Pediments
i. Triangular space
ii. Medusa image
iii. Decorated in Identical way on both sides of the building
j. First major stone pediment
k. Limestone
l. Significantly bigger than previous ones
m. Artemis
i. Greek goddess
1. Wild animals
2. Hunting
3. Vegetation
4. Chastity and childbirth
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