The Caryatid in the British Museum
The Caryatid in the British Museum is one of the main objects dominating the challenges to museum curation. The group of Caryatids on the south porch of the Erechtheion temple in Athens are admired for their ‘full and sensual forms…[and] delicacy of their drapery,’ reappearing in the cathedrals of 12th and 13th century France, and…
Temples and Sanctuaries across Archaic Greece
Over the past month, I have been working on an essay for one of my modules: Introduction to the Greek World. The question was one that, over the course of my education thus far, I have faced many times. What did it mean to be Greek in the Archaic period? Naturally, given my affinity to…
Conversing with Civilisations 