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Kouros (Ancient Greek: κοῦρος, pronounced, plural kouroi) is the modern term [a] given to free-standing Ancient Greek sculptures that depict nude male youths. They first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and are prominent in Attica and Boeotia , with a less frequent presence in many other Ancient Greek territories such as Sicily.
The sculpture is dated to the Late Archaic Period c. 540–515 BC and stands 1.95 metres high. [3] It is now situated in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (inv. no. 3851) in Athens, Greece. The sculptor of the kouros is uncertain and there is no secure record of the time and location of its discovery.
This kouros was carved in Attica during the archaic period of Ancient Greece. [7] It was a time that Greece was splintered into many city-states.Greek artists were making more and more naturalistic representations of the human figure throughout the 6th century BC. [9]
The Archaic period of ancient Greece is poorly delimited, and there is great controversy among scholars on the subject. It is generally considered to begin between 700 and 650 BC and end between 500 and 480 BC, but some indicate a much earlier date for its beginning, 776 BC, the date of the first Olympiad . [ 1 ]
The archaic smile was used by sculptors in Archaic Greece, [1] [2] especially in the second quarter of the 6th century BCE, possibly to suggest that their subject was alive and infused with a sense of well-being. One of the most famous examples of the archaic smile is the Kroisos Kouros, and the Peplos Kore is another.
It is located in an ancient quarry near Apollonas , a small town in the northern part of Naxos, one of the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea. The statue is a kouros dating from Archaic period of Ancient Greece , around the turn of the seventh and sixth centuries BC.
Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, [1] following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period. In the archaic period, the Greeks settled across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea : by the end of the period, they were part of a trade network ...
The Sounion Kouros is an early archaic Greek statue of a naked young man or kouros (Ancient Greek κοῦρος, plural kouroi) carved in marble from the island of Naxos around 600 BCE. It is one of the earliest examples that scholars have of the kouros-type [ 1 ] which functioned as votive offerings to gods or demi-gods, and were dedicated to ...