Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith
c. 440 BC · Resource
A marble metope from the south side of the Parthenon depicting a Lapith fighting a Centaur, carved 446-440 BC under Pheidias. Part of the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles, it embodies Classical Athenian sculpture.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 443 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (490 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Construction of the Parthenon (447 BCE)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War begins (431 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)