Acropolis of Athens

torso belong together, but many scholars have stressed that there is no ambiguity surrounding it, and that they are in fact connected. The Kritios Boy is now on display in the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece (Fig. 7). The museum attempts to present the sculptures as they would have been seen, in natural light on the Acropolis Hill. This allows viewers to get a full sense of the glory that was the summit of the Greek civilization. The Kritios Boy is placed on a pedestal in a room amongst…

Greece and Athens are well known for many reasons. The opulent structures, the detailed sculptures, or the compact cites that convey a busy urban living. All of these contribute to the awe-inspiring city. Athens is the site of many historical buildings such as The Agora, which was, in the beginning, a marketplace, but later on also contained temples and civic buildings. Another notable structure constructed in that time is the Akropolis; an ancient citadel which was composed of multiple…

are originally from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, and there is controversy over whether or not the Trustees of the British Museum legally acquired the collection. Lord Elgin’s illegitimate acquisition of the Parthenon sculptures along with the damage caused to the marbles support the argument to return them back to Athens where they can be viewed in their intended context. The Elgin Marbles are a symbol of national pride and history for the city of Athens that would attract tourists and…

life of Telephus, legendary founder of the city of Pergamon and son of the hero Heracles and Auge, one of Tegean king Aleus's daughters. built during the reign of king Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor. Eumenes II was able to create the Treaty of Apamea as an…

Doric columns have a round base, and get thinner, higher as they go up. Ionic columns, at the top, have stone that curls into spirals. Corinthian columns have flower-like decorations at the top. This is a digital recreation of the temple of zeus in Athens. It has doric temples, and a frieze There are 8 different designs for the interior of Greek temples. Each temple is based around the Naos, which was the spiritual center of every temple. The temple could either be circular, or small…

pieces of artwork in a museum, not wanting to return them to where they came from. The Greek argues that the pieces of artwork were taken illegally during the country’s Turkish occupation. the British have to return them so they are in display in Athens. The controversy…

The Temple of Athena Nike is a temple southwest side of the Acropolis of Athens. Built around 400 BC, this temple is the earliest fully Ionic temple. It is a protruding tall mass of rock, strategically located in a way that protects the south flank of the most vulnerable access point and gate to the citadel. (Ancient-Greece) In contrast to the Acropolis style, the Nike sanctuary was open, entered from the Propylaea southwest wing and from a narrow stair on the north. The temple was named for its…

King Eumenes II of the Attalid dynasty, from about 166 to 156 BCE. The altar is adorned with a 370-foot long marble frieze which depicts the Gigantomachy from Greek mythology. Like the Parthenon in Athens - another icon of classical antiquity - the Zeus Altar was constructed on a terrace of the acropolis overlooking the ancient city of Pergamon, situated on the west coast of Anatolia (now Turkey) in Asia Minor. However, unlike the Parthenon, it was not a temple but merely an altar, possibly…

collection of sculptures, inscriptions and architectural features acquired from the British government by Lord Elgin in 1816 and now exposed in the British museum in Duveen Gallery (Room 18). Under Elgin’s instructions, the marbles were removed from the Acropolis (the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Propylaia, and the Temple of Athena Nike) during his time as ambassador to the Ottoman court of the Sultan in Istanbul (1801-1812). The timeline (see graph 1) demonstrates various stages of the…

cities Most Greek cities had an agora where markets and government meetings were held. Many also had an acropolis, a high, heavily defended area where temples stood and citizens sheltered in times of enemy attack. These were the places in which people lived their public lives. To find out how they lived in private, archaeologists have dug up ordinary houses in cities such as Olynthos. -Town planning Athen grew up naturally over hundreds of years, houses in many shapes were built almost anywhere…