Parthenon

pride that characterized Greek culture. He also believed society should feel pride and importance towards their state. Pericles led Athens for thirty-two years and glorified Athens through civic pride by creating large building projects such as the Parthenon. The city became beautified with ivory, marble, and gold. The civic pride of the Athenians was expressed by the artistic creations by Pericles. On the other hand, Creon, the king of Thebes from the play Antigone, reveals a different approach…

From the pyramids and scorching deserts of ancient Egypt, to the Parthenon of ancient Greece, and to the Colosseum of ancient Rome, these cultures laid the foundation of what western civilization and thought would become today. To this day, there are multiple religions, multiple political systems, different government systems, and traditional ways of living that all had to originate from somewhere. Since researching and exploring more about these ancient cultures of Greece, Rome, and Egypt, it…

Αθηνα - Athena Αθηνα - The great mother of civilisation and Goddess of; education, philosophy, warfare, strength, inspiration and civilisation. The immortal Hellene, pushing boundaries 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…

“An urbanist who lived in a fishing cottage, an iconoclast who invented the highrise, an architect who wanted to be a painter”. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965, commonly known as Le Corbusier), was a well known modern artist and architect from Switzerland, later situated in France. His career years were later in the modernism period, yet he is called ‘the grandfather’ of modern architecture. In this essay, I will be discussing how Le Corbusier’s work in painting and in architecture, was…

Another week in the books and I have to say this class is going really good. For this journal entry we were asked to compare and contrast each one of the sites using your own impressions and opinions. The three websites are Knossos, Acropolis, and Pompeii Google Project. So I took the time to look at each website and I decided Pompeii Google Project would be the most fun to explore. The reason being the display seems really normal and there seem to be a lot of open space. Pompeii was an…

generations. It was valued to be smart and brave, a hero. Athens is named after the greek god Athena who protects and represents Athens which fits do to their cunning strategy and wisdom. Because of their devotion and admiration for Athena they built the Parthenon, a huge temple on top of the acropolis of the city. This magnificent structure can still be seen today. It is believed that Athena also represented Sparta due to their warlike society and how they value training your mind and body.…

Our world, once divided by the vastness of its oceans, has become connected more so than ever through globalization. International transport, communication, and commerce are results of this development. While globalization has its benefits, it instills regional and global competition between cities. Some cities have flourished, becoming world cities. Others struggle to maintain or catch up. To better understand this sense of competition, indexes have conceptualized universal characteristics of…

Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism was a movement in architecture that rejected the functionalist, modernist ideals of rationality and also used to describe a dissatisfaction with modern architecture. Postmodernism is characterized by the return of ornament and symbol to form. The aims of the postmodernism was look back to the past for inspiration of history and tradition, ideas of…

Ionic and Corinthian Temples were a big part of Greece architecture. They were large simple buildings that honored a certain god or goddess, and had a statute of them built inside. The most famous architectural building of Ancient Greece is the Parthenon, located in the city of Athens. It was built for Athena, the goddess of wisdom Pottery was one of the most popular forms of Art in ancient Greece. They would be covered with religious or mythological art and pictures. Painting was regarded to…

birds build nests for their homes; bees build hives for storage of food. But human developed architecture from a simple cave to an extraordinary work of art and technology. From the marvellous of the pyramids by the Egyptians,the magnificent of Parthenon by the Roman Empire to the skyscrapers in twentieth century, architecture is continually changing…