- Until recently the archaeologists used to believe that those metopes had been destroyed during the Morosini explosion of the Parthenon, in 1678.
- The sculpted metopes of the Parthenon (square reliefs set at regular interval above the colonnade, 32 on each long side, 12 on each main facade)...
- It was originally located on the south side of the Parthenon as one of a series of Metopes depicting an epic battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs.
- The richness of the Parthenon's frieze and metope decoration is in agreement with the function of the temple as a treasury.
- The relationship of the metopes to the architecture of the peristasis of the Hephaisteion and the Parthenon is examined in order to ascertain the extent of...
- Copyright 1996 Archaeological Institute of America Peer Reviewed Repository Citation Schwab, Katherine, "The North Metopes of the Parthenon and the...
- In the center of the metope. ... What does metope 27 show? The Lapith has an extended torso and his arms outstretched, grabbing the centaur behind the neck.
- Then, Abdelaziz incorporates it into the set of plaster casts of the Parthenon metopes in the Skulpturhalle Basel, in Switzerland.
- In several of the metopes, the Centaurs are victorious. In one extraordinary metope, we see a Lapith who has been killed by a Centaur.