Metope from the Parthenon marbles depicting a Centaur and a Lapith fighting

In classical architecture, a metope is the space between two triglyphs of a Doric frieze. Metopes were often decorated with carvings; the most famous example is the 92 metopes of the frieze of the Parthenon marbles depicting the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths. The term derives from Greek, from meta (between) and ope (an opening for the end of a beam) Download high resolution version (890x916, 134 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (890x916, 134 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... From the point of view of modern times, the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean sometimes seem to blend smoothly into one melange we call the Classical. ... Doric, a synonym of Dorian, may refer to any of the following: The Dorians, one of the ancient Hellenic races, Doric Greek, the dialect of the former, the Doric order and its distinctive Doric column, in ancient Greek architecture, the Dorian mode in music, also called the Doric mode, or... Metope from the Parthenon marbles depicting a Centaur and a Lapith fighting The Elgin Marbles is the popular term for the Parthenon Marbles, a large collection of marble sculptures brought to Britain between 1801 and 1805 by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, the official British resident in Ottoman Athens... Guido Reni, Abduction of Deianira, 1620-21 In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race part human and part horse, with a horses body and a human head and torso. ... In Greek mythology, the Lapiths were a semi-legenday, semi-historical race, whose home was in Thessaly in the valley of the Peneus. ...

In Greek mythology, Metope was a river nymph, the daughter of the river Ladon. She married the river Asopus by whom she had a daughter named Sinope (also Thebe). Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... For other uses of nymph see Nymph (disambiguation). ... Ladon is the hundred-headed dragon that guarded the garden of the Hesperides in Greek mythology. ... Asopus or Asôpos is the name of five different rivers in Greece and also in Greek mythology the name of the gods of those rivers. ... Sinope was an ancient city on the Black Sea, in the region of Galatia, modern-day Sinop, Turkey. ... In Greek mythology, the name Thebe refers to at least three different people An Amazon A nymph, daughter of Asopus and Metope, wife of Zethus. ...

Metopes (Opus 29) is a work for piano solo by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski. It draws on Greek mythology, specifically the Odyssey of Homer, for its three movements The Isle of the Sirens, Calypso, and Nausicaa. The work may have been inspired by the metopes of the temple of Selinunte. Karol Maciej Szymanowski (October 6, 1882 - March 29, 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist. ... Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... Odyssey - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... In music, a movement is a large division of a larger composition or musical form. ... Selinunte is an ancient Greek archaeological site in the south province of Trapani, in the island of Sicily. ...