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acropolis
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highest part of the city, huge amount of wealth, complex gateway
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pediment
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under rooves, triangles area, sculpture art fit here
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Phidias
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head of the team for sculpture of parthanon
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Elgin Marbles
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surviving pieces of sculpture in Britain
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caryatid
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female figure beecomes supporting column grooves of skirt look like grooves of column
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contrapposto
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pose where figure's weight placed on hone leg,one hip raised, spine slightly curved
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Peragamon
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city on coast of turkey, very powerful lots of art made here
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entasis
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swelling of cloumn, muscular response to load its carrying purely asthetic
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