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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

7/1/1978 - 9/30/1978

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

Ethical Action and Divine Response in the Sculptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia

FAIN: FT-13807-78

Ruth M. Gais
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY 13244-0001)

To study the ethical concepts of the fifth century B.C. Greece, as expressed in the sculptural decorations of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. The relationship of these ideas to those expressed in the Parthenon sculptures, the Odes of Pindar, and the oresteia of Aeschylus.