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The metopes (carved space on a Doric frieze) around the entablature depict the legendary feats of Heracles and Theseus.
His statue — inexplicably pinned halfway up a monolith in a very martyr-like pose, although he died in his bed (in China) — stands with its back to the sea beside a sculpted frieze dedicated to the suffering of his Japanese converts.
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).
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.
In the apse there’s a moving mosaic of the Madonna above a frieze of the 12 Apostles.