Compare and Contrast Essay “Parthenon and the Pantheon” From two entirely different times‚ the Pantheon and the Parthenon share similarities‚ along with a world of differences‚ in form‚ function‚ themes‚ belief‚ and messages about their respective civilizations. By comparing these two structures‚ it is easy to see why the knowledge of context and culture is important to understand and interpret art. The Pantheon was built in 126 AD in ancient Rome as a temple to the seven gods of the seven
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The controversy of whether the Elgin or Parthenon Marbles should be kept in Britain‚ or returned to Greece‚ has been a frenzied dispute since the early 1800’s. Lord Elgin originally took possession of the Marbles to either salvage them from being further destroyed‚ or he bought them and re-sold them to the British Museum. Whether Lord Elgin‚ ambassador to the then ruling Ottoman empire‚ had the authority to handle the Marbles presents great confusion‚ “[a]s to whether Elgin had legal authority to
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and it lasted 8 days. The Great Panathenaia was a social and political as well as a religious festival. The Great Panathenaia was mainly a religious festival as the whole point of it was to honour the goddess Athena who was the patron goddess of Athens. The reason for holding the festival was to celebrate Athena’s birthday which was roughly sometime in mid-June. Athena was honoured in many ways‚ one of which is the presentation of the peplos to the statue of Athena. The peplos was a large new robe
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UW Department of Architecture Quiz 2 VERSION A + B Arch 150 Spring 2012 GO TO # 101 ON YOUR ANSWER SHEET Questions about Image Set 1: Acropolis‚ Athens 101. The gateway to this site‚ visible in the foreground at the lower right‚ is called the: a. Erechtheion b. Parthenon c. Temple of Hera d. Stoa of Attalus e. Propylaia 102. The main temple shown at the upper right is dedicated to: a. Athena b. Erectheus c. Portunus d. Aphrodite 103. The primary function of the main temple shown at the upper
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and stood immediately below the Parthenon in Athens‚ Greece. It was originally built in the late 5th century B.C. The theater was an outdoor auditorium in the shape of a great semicircle on the slope of the Acropolis‚ with rows of seats on which about eighteen thousand spectators could comfortably seat. The front rows consisted of marble chairs‚ and were the only seats in the theater that had a back support. The priests of Dionysus and the chief magistrates of Athens reserved these rows. Priests
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period of conflict between Athens and Sparta‚ which caused great destruction (Text 127). As well as many wars with Persia that destroyed the Akropolis multiple times (Text 128-129). The Akropolis‚ meaning “city on top of a hill”‚ was the religious center of Athens‚ devoted to the goddess Athena‚ Athens patron deity and protector (Text 128). The Akropolis was attack and destroyed in 480 BCE by Persian troops‚ and rebuild to honor the gods (Text 128). The leader of Athens at the time was a great patron
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Lila Mae Watson faces drastically different challenges of modernity than those James Axton recognizes. Where Axton is an upper middle class caucasian man with the means and ability to move about the globe and hold a somewhat prestigious job‚ Lila Mae is the most talented Elevator Inspector in the city and can glean little to no respect from her peers and society due to Whitehead’s pre-civil rights setting. Lila Mae’s central test stems from her gender and race. The other African American or mixed
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The Parthenon building in Athens was started in 447 BC and completed in 432. It represents a tangible and the visible power of the Athenian Empire. Having also the influence from the Athenian politician‚ Perikles. The Pantheon Building is in Rome‚ Italy and was constructed in 126 AD. The name Pantheon comes from the Greek language meaning ’’every god’’. It’s in a circular shape rather than the rectangular shape of the Parthenon Building in Athens. It is currently being used a Church dedicated to
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that we were traveling with fourteen-month-old twins‚ we managed to be at each ruin when the site opened at sunrise. I vividly remember standing in an empty ampitheatre pretending to be an ancient tragedian‚ picking out my favorite sculpture in the Acropolis museum‚ and inserting our family into modified tales of the battle at Troy. Eight years and half a dozen passport stamps later I have come to value what I have learned on these journeys about global history‚ politics and culture‚ as well as my family
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The powerful goddess of wisdom and warfare‚ known as Athena‚ had a larger-than-life statue built in Parthenos by Pheidias during ancient times. The figure has been replicated and with numerous copies‚ yet the original cannot be found to this day. One truly remarkable and recent copy of Athena Parthenos was constructed in 1990 by Alan LeQuire in Nashville‚ Tennessee. Copies have been seen elsewhere‚ such as the “Varvakeion statuette”‚ created in the second century CE and considered the most complete
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