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The metopes (carved space on a Doric frieze) around the entablature depict the legendary feats of Heracles and Theseus.
In the apse there’s a moving mosaic of the Madonna above a frieze of the 12 Apostles.
Classical sacred dance, Bharatanatyam, has a total of 108 different consecrated forms — you can see them performed by Shiva in the sculpted frieze of Thanjavur’s Brihadisvara Temple (see page 191).
Of the 34 Doric columns only 15 are still in situ, and the ornate frieze on the pediment and entablature has been ravaged by the salty air, but the whole effect of the building combined with the setting — with beach on one side and sheer drop on the other — is magnificent.
Each room has something of note but look for the pediment of a lion tearing apart a bull, dating from the sixth century b.c. in room 1. Pediment depicting a triple-headed demon, and a kouros (male statue) named The Calf-bearer — a young man carrying a calf to ritual slaughter at the temple — are both displayed in room 2. Kritikos Boy and Blond-haired Boy — two sculptures carved in the “severe” style fashionable around 480 b.c. are displayed in room 6. Panels from the Ionic frieze that decorated the Parthenon are in room 8, and the original Caryatids can be found in room 9.