Kresilas was a Greek sculptor from Kydonia. He lived in the 5th century BC. Sculptor redirects here. ... Chania (IPA ) (also transliterated as Hania) (Greek Χανιά) is the second city of Crete and the capital of the prefecture of the same name. ... (6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) The 5th and 6th centuries BC are a period of philosophical brilliance among advanced civilizations. ...

He worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war. There he created, for example a statue of Pericles (440-430 B.C.); its base was found in the Athenian Acropolis. It seems the series of the Pericles portraits are in succession of it. Kresilas was a follower of the idealistic portraiture of Myron. He created the wounded men and a dying Amazon for Ephesus in concurrence with the best Greek sculptors Pheidias and Polyclitus. It is possible that the theme of the Amazon is the model for many copies. The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... Map of the Greek world at the start of the Peloponnesian War Temple of Apollo at Corinth The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BC between the Athenian Empire (or The Delian League) and the Peloponnesian League which included Sparta and Corinth. ... Nudle, British Museum, London Pericles (ca. ... This article refers to acropoleis in general. ... Roman-Egyptian funeral portrait of a young boy A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person. ... Myron was a Greek sculptor of the middle 5th century BC. He was born at Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. ... In Greek mythology, the Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a contemporary land of women at the outer edges of the world. ... Ephesus (Greek: Έφεσσος) was one of the great cities of the Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor, located in Lydia where the Cayster river flows into the Aegean Sea (in modern day Turkey). ... Concurrence or Simultaneity is a legal term, from Western jurisprudence, referring to the simultaneous occurrence of actus reus (bad action) and mens rea (bad mind), which must be present for a crime to have occurred; except in crimes of strict liability. ... Phidias, (or Pheidias), son of Charmides, (circa 490 BC - circa 430 BC) was an ancient Greek sculptor, universally regarded as the greatest of Greek sculptors. ... Polykleitos (or Polycletus, Polycleitus, Polyclitus) was a Greek sculptor of the 5th century BC. He was of the school of Argos, a contemporary of Pheidias and in the opinion of the Greeks his equal. ... In music, a theme is the initial or primary melody. ...