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The Parthenon was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena, the patron deity of the city of Athens. Located on the Acropolis, a rocky hill overlooking the city, the Parthenon was considered the most important temple in ancient Athens and served as a symbol of the city's wealth and power.
The Parthenon was designed by the architect Callicrates and built between 447 and 438 BCE. The temple was made of marble and had a distinctive Doric style, with columns and a triangular pediment. It was adorned with sculptures and reliefs, many of which depicted scenes from Greek mythology. The most famous of these is the frieze, a band of sculpted marble that ran around the temple's exterior, depicting the Panathenaic procession, a annual event in which a new peplos, or garment, was presented to Athena.
Inside the Parthenon was a large statue of Athena, made of ivory and gold and created by the sculptor Phidias. The statue was so large that it almost filled the entire interior of the temple. It depicted Athena standing, holding a shield and a spear, and wearing a crown of olive leaves.
The Parthenon was not only a place of worship, but also a place of political and cultural significance. It served as a treasury for the city of Athens, and was used to store the city's wealth, including its famous silver mines. The temple also housed the city's archives, and was used as a venue for public meetings and debates.
Throughout its history, the Parthenon has undergone numerous renovations and restorations. It has been damaged by wars, fires, and earthquakes, and has been used for various purposes, including as a mosque, a Christian church, and a military fortress. Despite these challenges, the Parthenon remains a symbol of ancient Greek culture and one of the most iconic landmarks in the world.
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Paul came to Athens, the city had fallen from its ancient splendor, a splendor as far distant from his own time as Elizabethan England is from ours. Each column comprises 20 flutes. Temple building was a very specialized craft, and there were not many men in Greece qualified to build temples like the Parthenon, so these men would travel around and work where they were needed. READ: What does a red line behind a watch mean? Retrieved 14 August 2012. Other statues contained in the Parthenon were pediments which were described by Pausanias. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
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Greeks worshiped all of their gods by building temples for them and giving sacrifices. The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present. The sculptor Phidias oversaw building and decorating the Parthenon. A flute is the The Parthenon is regarded as the finest example of Greek architecture. Retrieved 4 May 2007. Dörpfeld, "Parthenon I, II, III", AJA, XXXIX, 1935, 497—507, and W.
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When Athens was under siege by the Venetians in 1687, the Parthenon was used as a gunpowder store. Parthenon served to be part of Different Religions The Parthenon temple went through many transformations from Greek Temple to Church to Mosque and now open museum during its long history. Photo: Jean de Calan. Who is the Parthenon sacred to? Greece has long sought the return of artifacts taken from the Parthenon, a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena located on the "Our position is very clear," The British Museum holds in its collection 15 metopes, 17 pedimental figures, and 75 meters of the original 160-meter-long frieze, a long, decorative, horizontal panel taken from the same structure as the fragments from the Vatican. Other craftsmen were necessary for the building of the Parthenon, specifically carpenters and metalworkers.
Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Retrieved 22 February 2008. Upon giving me authorization to translate the book, I did not have a computer. Apart from serving as a house of worship, the Parthenon was also used as a treasury by the Athenian Empire. What is the real name of the Parthenon? Retrieved 18 July 2022.
Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. It was completed in 438 BC, although decoration of the building continued until 432 BC. It took over a decade to build Parthenon. After more than 200 years, the Vatican has agreed to return fragments of marble that were stolen from the Parthenon back to the Greek Orthodox Church. Saint Paul in Athens Steps leading up to the Areopagus with memorial plaque of St.
American Journal of Archaeology. The residents of Athens constructed the Parthenon at the time when they were at the height of their dominance. A colossal chryselephantine statue - temple to celebrate Athena, the namesake of the city of Athens - celebrates Athens - testifies the piety and wealth of the city, emphasis on interior -city and religious centre, shows the city's power and wealth - symbol of birth of democracy and peace, proclaims to the world the success of Athens as a leader of the Greek forces which had defeated the Persian army - a treasury for the state - majestically imposing dominates the city of Athens -enshrines the statue -purpose resembles the unique function of "a temple and an art gallery" -symbolic of the city-states glory -Converted to a church during last decade of the 6th Century. From 1801, after obtaining permission from the Ottoman authorities, the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire Lord Elgin removed about half of the remaining sculptures from the fallen ruins and the building. Photo by Donald Macbeth. Pheidias:The Sculptures and Ancient Sources. While there are fragments in Paris, Copenhagen, Munich, Vienna, Palermo, and Würzburg — in addition to the Vatican and the British Museum — British Museum officials have maintained the fragments were "removed from rubble" of the Parthenon, not removed from the temple's surface and were thus legally acquired, "Over the years, Greek authorities and the international scientific community have demonstrated with unshakeable arguments the true events surrounding the removal of the Parthenon sculptures," Greece's culture minister, Lina Mendoni, said in a statement to The British Museum did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Sadly, during the Venetian siege of Athens in 1687, a shell hit a Turkish supply of gunpowder stored in the Parthenon and it was extensively damaged. These fragments are known as the Elgin Marbles and are different than those returned to Greece by the Vatican. Dedicated to Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, it was a very important temple to the Greeks. The Parthenon Enigma: a New Understanding of the West's Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It. The Parthenon sculptures are iconic works of art.
Retrieved 18 August 2015. Several historians consider the Parthenon to be the most significant structure that survived from the Classical Greek era and is one of the Reasons for the Construction of the Parthenon Before the Parthenon was built, the residents of Athens worshipped at an older structure referred to as the Older Parthenon. Sculptures from the west pediment of the Parthenon on display in Room 18 in the British Museum. Stabilizing pins added in the 19th century were not so coated, and corroded. The Parthenon is a peripteral octastyle Doric temple that boasts exemplary architectural features.
