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The pediment and frieze of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi are regarded today as decorative works of the Attic-Ionic school of sculpture. An examination of the scenes on the Treasury shows that, while the style and certain details do have parallels in Athens and Ionia, the subject matter, iconography, and composition are innovative in ways which appear deliberately to reject Attic practice. A new reconstruction and interpretation of the south frieze of the Treasury are presented, and it is suggested that the scenes on the Treasury were programmatically planned by the Delphic priesthood to convey a moralizing admonition against mortal hubris, with certain specific allusions to the tyrant Peisistratos of Athens and his allies. It has been recognized that Delphi, and the Siphnian Treasury friezes in particular, played an important role in the initial development of the continuous narrative frieze. If the above interpretation of the reliefs is correct, it may explain to some extent why and how this development took place. Studies of the pediment and frieze on the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi have concentrated on the similarities in style and iconography between the Delphi scenes and Att

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Author

Livingston Vance Watrous

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1982

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)