Parthenon

Athena is described in this report as the wisest, most resourceful and most courageous goddess of all the Olympians. Her main areas of expertise include “wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, female arts, crafts, [and] justice”. Zeus, her father, treasured her greatly, as he trusted her with his thunderbolt and his shield with a depiction of the head of Medusa on it. The symbol of Athena is the Owl, a nocturnal bird associated with intelligence and wisdom.…

Ancient Rome, at its greatest extent, was 2,509,663 square miles. Everything they did helped the city grow. The Romans used art to help build the empire by showing power, advancement, and religion. These influences helped shape Ancient Rome. The Romans used art to represent power. In many pieces, you can see hints of this power. With the column in the middle of the town square, it shows a superior thing looking above everything else. It represents the hierarchy of the government. Also, the…

The city of Athens was the cultural hub of the Greek Empire. During the fourth, fifth and sixth century b.c., philosophy, mathematics and sciences, religion and arts were all at the heart of the revolution. Prominent philosophers had questioned the truth, divinity, human nature, harmony and the goods and evils of the world, causing other to wonder what the world really was. The mathematicians and scientists provided answers to the theories and great questions asked. Their Gods and Goddesses was…

Athena was the goddess of wisdom of war. She was in most of the wars and she was the only woman that fought in battle.The story of how she was born is the craziest she was actually born from Zeus’s forehead it is crazy but it really did happen.It started it out when Zeus had a massive headache which lead to to the coming of Athena. When she came out she was in full armor a tall, and skinny woman and super strong. She was in several battles. Athena was also the greek goddess of reason.She was…

closer together that others would want to join. This sculpture could make us go from a small town to a big famous city. Public Art has been with us since the ancient Greeks. Throughout history we have seen public art reflect a community from the Parthenon in Greece to Leonardo de Vinci's “ The Mona Lisa”, through all of it these sculptures reflected national identity and pride in a city or…

During the rest of his reign Hadrian often traveled the empire working towards his goals of peace; overall he traveled twelve of the twenty years he ruled. He even builds a ship in order to travel faster and more efficiently. Instead of continuing to conquer like Trajan had, he pulls back from some of their lands such as Armenia and Parthia and makes it his goal to defend the lands rather than gain more. His legacy is of great importance to him and he wants to make sure Rome prospers under his…

Here I am. I am a bag. A red bag. I lay in a closet full of clothes and hats, miniature football helmets and lots of other junk. It’s about this time of year when I become down. I feel sad. I don’t know where to start, so hold on. (tears fill the eyes I don’t have) *sniffs* I am sad because I am only visited once a day, and a boy walks into my room, takes a look at some shirts, and picks one, then he leaves. Day after day, and the same process is repeated, until summer. I think that’s what they…

In Ancient Rome, the G-ds were still a large part of the culture, but with more wealth came more time allowing for more leisure activities. The new heavily populated cities of Ancient Rome called for more public places. Like every major change in culture, the growing population required new solutions for the construction of an infrastructure which supported the exponential increase of social interaction. Architects were tasked with designing aqueducts, baths, amphitheaters, and to support the…

black-figure amphora with animal friezes, from Rhodes, Greece, ca. 625–600 BCE. 1’ 2” this beautiful colored pictures tells us some kind of story behind that. Greeks were experts in architecture as well and we can’t ask for better example than “The Parthenon” which was made for goodness Athena. Goodness Athena was representing human ambition, and knowledge. Temple of Hera I (“Basilica”), Paestum, Italy, ca. 550 BCE is also another example of their architecture. They counted human body as a…

the ransom was given up to Athena as a tribute. Also, any individual who came to observe the state religion would encounter this inscription when they first entered the Acropolis. As the metopes on the outside of the Parthenon would suggest, festivals would be held around the Parthenon on a regular basis for the entire city of Athens. Words like valor in the inscription highlight the actions of war in a positive light as well and could have given people in the state a sense of nationalistic…