Acropolis

and reminding everyone about how women can do math and have an education, along with provoking gender equality in such a dark period in time. ΑΘΉΝΑ of Pallas Athens. Guardian of her city. The people of Athena used to be able to look up at their Acropolis, the safe haven, high above the city and know that a sacred force protected them and inspired them to serve a higher course in life. The temple of virgin truth, where Athena once sat and ruled. ΑΘΉΝΑ, pushing boundaries, inspiring the Athenian…

of wisdom. Athena was also a guardian of cities, notably Athens, where the Parthenon was erected as her temple. In a contest with Poseidon concerning dominian over Attica, Athena made an olive tree to grow in the Acropolis while Poseidon caused a saltwater stream to gush from the Acropolis." (Baker) Athena in her early days was born out of her fathers head because she was trapped inside when he swallowed Metis. Hephaestus freed Athena from the head of Zeus. After Athena was freed, one of her…

In “The Lovely Stones,” an article published in Wired magazine, Christopher Hitchens builds a persuasive argument that Britain should return the original historical pieces of the Parthenon to Greece. Hitchens utilizes effective organization, strong evidence, literary devices, and powerful diction to establish a legitimate argument. The clear logical reasoning of this passage enhances the quality of Hitchens’s article. He starts off strong with a quote that highlights the significance of the…

In Greek this term is used for young women. First, the statue Peplos Kore is from the Acropolis In Greece and was made in 530 BCE. This piece was made from marble and is about four feet high and is now in the Acropolis Museum in the Athens. Male statues are called kouros and are never wearing clothes and lay there in the nude, while women always have clothes on in Archaic Statuary. This specific kore…

The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, are cultural artifacts from ancient Greece. A British ambassador named Elgin was concerned about the probable damage that could have occurred to many important pieces of artworks in the temple of Greece during the Turkish occupation. Apparently, permission and the authority was given to Elgin to take many pieces of stone. Thus, the pieces were transported to London, England to preserve them. The British since then have the pieces of artwork…

The Acropolis of Athens was built around 429 BC. Today, people from all around the world come and visit this famous attraction. Delphi was a spot where in myth, they believe Zeus found the centre of his “Grandmother earth”. He sent two eagles flying from either…

This society’s religion evolved from a polytheist religion to Christianity over the course of more than a thousand years. The first polytheist god is Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. On the site of The Temple of Aphrodite that there is a 7C BCE wooden temple to this goddess, demonstrating the site’s only connection to Mesopotamia. Demonstrated in “Inana’s Descent to the Nether World”, the Mesopotamians believe that Ishtar ascended down to the underworld and her time there represented winter.…

classical age they fought two battles against the Persians. In the Battle of Salamis ca. 480 BCE, the Persians burned down sculptures and temples in Athens. The Acropolis was especially left in ruins since it was the heart of Athens nonetheless; Kritios Boy dated before the attack in ca. 480 BCE, a sculpture once dedicated in the Acropolis was discovered enacted. The sculpture was a dedication to one of the temples symbolizing religious context. The name given is associated to its sculptor…

liberation in the Greco-Persian War. Although Athens left to be ruins after the wars, winning gave them confidence. They continued to build their strong and amazing civilization after the wars. The Athena Acropolis was destroyed by the Persians in the wars. They were responsible to rebuild the Acropolis, which we can still see today. And in honor of Athena, the Greeks used the weapons that the Persians left to make a bronze statue. The Greeks were being more powerful and prosperity after the…

When one sets out to build an impressive, modern building, one might be calling upon architecture that is 2,000 years old. That architecture would be ancient Greek architecture. Why Greek architecture? The answer is that Greek architecture established a new way of thinking about and using space. The Greeks thought about the rational organization of buildings and cities. They established the foundations for a spirit of creative experimentation in design and a vision of freedom. This way of…