• Cavalry from the Parthenon Frieze, West II, 2–3, British Museum. The Parthenon frieze is the high-relief Pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part...
  • All of the horsemen on the Parthenon frieze are clean, youthful, and beardless, showing their idealization in the eyes of those who commissioned the frieze.
  • The frieze of the Parthenon forms a continuous band with scenes in relief that encircles the upper part of the cella, the main temple, within the outer colonnade.
  • The Parthenon frieze has been the subject of many debates and the interpretation of it leads to a number of problems: what was the subject of the frieze?
  • Parts of the Parthenon frieze from the Acropolis have been in the possession of the British Museum for more than 200 years.
  • The single largest element of the procession consisted of the citizen body on foot, yet this aspect is entirely absent on the Parthenon frieze.
  • One can explore the Parthenon frieze through the thematic sections The Parthenon, About the Frieze, Explore the frieze and Thematic Tours.
  • 119 pages, 4 pages of plates : 23 x 28 cm. The artistic genius of Athens in the fifth century BC reached its peak in the sculpted marble reliefs of the Parthenon frieze.
  • The frieze on the east side of the Parthenon shows the arrival on the Acropolis of the procession formed by the people of Athens during the festival of the...
  • The Parthenon frieze is a marble sculpture that adorned the upper part of the Parthenon temple. It was constructed between c. 443 and 437 BC...