(Posted 13 April 2015. The text is in an older version of Ñspel.)
“Xpirı̣ns ɖ briłns n dvrṣti v ênčnt Grīc āt in ɖs mêjr xibišn foc̣sñ on ɖ hymn bodi.
Fr senčriz ɖ ênčnt Grīcs xperimentd wɖ wez v reprizntñ ɖ hymn bodi, bʈ az an objct v byti n a berr v mīnñ.
Ɖ rmāc̣bl wrcs v āt in ɖ xibišn renj fṛm abstract simpliṣti v prīhistoric fiğrīnz t breʈtêkñ riylizm in ɖ êj v Alixandr ɖ Grt. Ɖz wrcs cntinyd t inspîr ātists fr hundṛdz v yirz, gvñ fwm t ʈt n šêpñ âr ôn pspšnz v ârslvz.
Ɖ čīf fwmz v byti r ōdr, siṃtri n clir dliniešn. (Aristotl)
In pwtreyñ îdiyl tîps v byti… y brñ tgɖr fṛm mni modlz ɖ most bytifl fīčrz v č (Socṛtīz)”
A marble relief from the north frieze of the Parthenon shows the procession of the Panathenaic festival, the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena (438-432BC).
Bronze statuette showing the suicide of Ajax. Greece, 720-700BC
Marble metope from the Parthenon shows the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos (438-432BC)
Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath, also known as Lely’s Venus. Roman copy of a Greek original (AD2).
The Elgin Marbles
Apoxyomenos (detail of head; Hellenistic or Roman replica after a bronze original from the second quarter or the end of the 4th century BC)
Marble statuette of Socrates (a Hellenistic original of the 2nd century BC, or a Roman copy, Alexandria, Egypt).
Reconstruction of the Doryphoros
A bronze statuette of Zeus
The “Westmacott Athlete”