Parthenon Metopes

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The Parthenon is a Doric temple - that's its architectural style.발음듣기

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And one of the things that defines a Doric temple is that it has triglyphs.발음듣기

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And in between the triglyphs, are metopes.발음듣기

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I love those words, triglyphs and metopes.발음듣기

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So, triglyphs just mean sort of a mark of three and it's a little three lines. - A kind of ridges.발음듣기

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Mhm, exactly. And in between, these squares with really deep relief carving, they're about five feet square.발음듣기

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These would have been in an area right above where the capitals are.발음듣기

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That's right, and below the pediment.발음듣기

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And the metopes that we're looking at depict a battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs.발음듣기

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And I think we'd better talk about who they were and why they were fighting.발음듣기

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This is a story that would have been a kind of mythic story even for the fifth century Greeks, who were depicting them.발음듣기

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And the story tells of a wedding, a Lapith wedding.발음듣기

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Now the Lapiths were a tribe of Ancient Greeks and they lived near the forest.발음듣기

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Now, in the forest, were these creatures that were only sort of half human - the Centaurs, half human half horse.발음듣기

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And the Greeks would have looked at them as kind of monstrous creatures.발음듣기

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You know, for the Greeks, there was a whole hierarchy of kinds of beings.발음듣기

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The gods at the top, then there were heroes, and heroes were the result of a union between a god and a human, and then, of course, there were humans themselves.발음듣기

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And then, below that, there were these sub-humans or monsters, and the centaurs were certainly that.발음듣기

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So, they were not quite human, still part of the animal world.발음듣기

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And not entirely to be trusted.발음듣기

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Nevertheless, the Lapiths were feeling extremely generous and really wanted to celebrate this wedding.발음듣기

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And so, they invited the Centaurs to the wedding.발음듣기

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That was a big mistake. It was a big mistake.발음듣기

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They had a little bit too much to drink, didn't they?발음듣기

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They did, and they (the centaurs) took advantage.발음듣기

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In fact, what they did is[was], all at once, they began to abduct the Lapith women.발음듣기

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So, what's being depicted is the Lapith women being made off with, and the Lapith males fighting with the Centaurs, who are really quite formidable - not only do they have six limbs, but you know they have all of the brute strength of a wild animal.발음듣기

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The one we are looking at is of a Lapith struggling against a centaur.발음듣기

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It looks like he's grabbing him by the neck and pulling him.발음듣기

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You can just see his fingers wrapping around behind that neck, even though the neck and the head itself are gone.발음듣기

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He's pulling him back, though.발음듣기

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Look at that' - it's almost like a bow, a spring...발음듣기

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You can feel the tension of that body as it's being pulled back, and the strength of the Centaur - that's really trying to pull away and free himself.발음듣기

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It looks, actually, like the Centaur is holding on with his right hand onto something, and struggling against being pulled by the Lapith.발음듣기

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Look at the kind of composition - it's so complicated.발음듣기

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You have a couple of opposing arcs: the arc of the Lapith's body, and then the arc of the Centaur's as well.발음듣기

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Yeah, so it's almost a circular composition, in a way.발음듣기

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And look how deep that carving is!발음듣기

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It's amazing.발음듣기

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It's really almost freestanding.발음듣기

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It's actually remarkable to me that more of this did not break off than did, because it's in such high relief it's almost freestanding.발음듣기

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And marble is really soft stone.발음듣기

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I also love the fact that those broad plains of the body are played against the more complex sort of backdrop of the cloth.발음듣기

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I mean this is, in some ways, incredibly naturalistic.발음듣기

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So naturalistic that we almost believe...발음듣기

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You don't notice the artifice.발음듣기

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Well, not only the artifice of the perfectly draped cloth in the background, but, how about, the artifice of the fact that we almost believe that a Centaur could exist.발음듣기

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In other words, it is almost a believable union of a human and a horse's body.발음듣기

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That's true. What's really striking to me is the way our eye is drawn to the anatomical structure of the Lapith's body.발음듣기

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In the chest, in the ribcage, and the abdominal muscles, the pectoral muscles.발음듣기

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And those same structures in the body of the Centaur, you can see its ribcage and veins.발음듣기

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So, there's a kind of mirroring of these figures.발음듣기

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There is a kind of mirroring. I think that is exactly right.발음듣기

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But there's also a kind of subtle distinction, which is that the tension that the artist has constructed because of the bowing of the Centaur's body is not seen in the exertion of the Lapith.발음듣기

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In other words, look at the Lapith, even though he is exerting tremendous power to pull back this horse, the Centaur. - He's in control.발음듣기

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He is in total control, total balance.발음듣기

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And in fact, the body is almost relaxed, remains almost completely sort of perfectly noble and perfectly balanced, even within this battle.발음듣기

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Look at the difference in the way that the Centaur and the Lapith's heads, their faces, are represented.발음듣기

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First of all, you've got the sense of age.발음듣기

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You've got the beautiful noble face of the Greek, of the Lapith.발음듣기

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And even as his neck is being crushed, even as he is being choked, there is a sense of rest and nobility, there is no anguish in that face whatsoever.발음듣기

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In contrast, we have this gnarled, bearded, long-haired, older figure, with a kind of knit brow, a kind of wild open eye, and with a kind of broken nose, all of which is looking rough and pretty much not the kind of noble mien that the Greeks give themselves.발음듣기

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It's almost as though the human has superhuman strength, and doesn't need to draw on the brute physicality that the Centaur has to draw on.발음듣기

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Well, I think that the Greeks were making a real distinction.발음듣기

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They were noble and they were distinguishing themselves from the brutish barbarians beyond their borders.발음듣기

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In fact, a lot of our historians look at this and say that the Lapiths are, in fact, the Greeks. Of course.발음듣기

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But the Centaurs are those that are not Greek.발음듣기

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And the Greeks themselves were looking towards for instance, the Persians, their great enemy, with real fear as barbarians, as kind of almost animals, as almost centaurs.발음듣기

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Representing a kind of chaos.발음듣기

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And, in fact, this art really represents, through its balance, through its perfections, through this kind of idealism, that sense of control that was so important to the Greeks.발음듣기

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It's no wonder that for so many hundreds of years after this, thousands of years, we have looked back to this moment as this sort of extraordinary, and precious, and rare moment.발음듣기

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Not only because it was a moment of limited democracy, but of the first democracy, but it was a moment when the mind and the body were both cherished and seen as extraordinary and beautiful.발음듣기

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