ARTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Doryphoros, Ancient Agora Of Athens, Acropolis Museum
14 Apr 2016
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Used to funcion as a church, mosque when otomans conquered greece. Intact unil 17th century when veneians atacked athens. Acropolis high city: defensible, naturally protected because it"s higher, top of acropolis remained a sacred spot. Full scale replica of chryselephanine gold and wooden. Nashville, tennesse in 1897 replica of parthenon. Poseidon struck ground with trident on acropolis and a spring of water came out of the ground: arid country = water is precious, since it was the god of the sea, the water was salt water. Athena produced olive tree olives, oil, irewood: people chose this as more valuable to the country. Parthenon was a replacement for a previous temple of athena constructed earlier. Destroyed by the persian empire about 500 bce. Xerxes persian empire: invaded greece to expand his empire. Xerxes and his army came to greece and defeated them in a march on athens: batle of thermopylae. Greece defeated the persians at the batle of salamis.
