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Kroisos status
The Kroisos Kouros is a statue of an Athenian soilder that functioned as a grave marker, it was located in Anavyssos in Attica. Dated between. 540-515 B.C., made of marble and stands 1.95m high. The inscription on the base of the statue reads: "Stop and show pity beside the marker of Kroisos, dead, It is worthy of note that the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus uses the phrase "..raging Ares destroyed." As the last line in one of his poems, deplicting a heroic citizen preforming his duty as a solider in the front ranks.. The sculpute has a distinctive Egyptian feel to it, especially the eyes. Grave markers up until c525 B.C. were usually made of wood and so none have passed down to us today. The Greeks by then were trading with Egypt and so how their statues were made with the use of iron tools were now known in Greece. The Kroisos Kouros is thought to represent the ideal image of the person rather than an actual protrail of what Kroisos looked like. Portrait statues and busts were not thought to have been made during this time. Nevertheless, it's paramount segnificance is due to the fact that it displays that in ancient Greece statues were errected for the common man. Compared to other nations were displayed statues were in the form of gods or kings. cont..the wonders of Samos
References: *01 J. M. Hurwit, The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B. C. (Ithaca NY, 1985)
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Also in 525 B.C. the last pharaoh of the Twenty-Sixth dynasty, Psammetichus III from Egypt, was defeated by Cambyses II of Persia in the battle of Pelusium in the eastern Nile delta, Egypt was then joined with Cyprus and Phoenicia in the sixth satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. Thus began the first period of Persian domination over Egypt (also known as the Twenty-Seventh dynasty of Egypt) |
