ARHI 30120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Pediment, Chthonic, Tiryns

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13 Nov 2017
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Michael Moynihan
10/24/17
ARHI 30120
Lecture 16
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- Make a detailed definition and analysis of monumentality
Review of Pediments
- Purpose was always monumental in nature
- There is a fallacious view that the first pediments were made by less competent people
and that the later were better
- Temple of Zeus
- Olympia is well preserved because it is on a plain. It was never build over and
was simply covered by rivers.
- There is no ambiguity as to which pediment is the front and which is the back
- One pediment is at the east, the other at the west end
- The back was in profile, there was no invasion of our space, it was violent and
moving, changing, thus it is narrative
- The front is confrontational, it breaks into our space
- Interacts with the audience
- Other great Panhellenic sight is Delphi
- It is a temple to Apollo
- Built in the last quarter of the 6th century B.C.
- The front is very well preserved, the back is poorly preserved
- A hierarchy is established
Acropolis
- Parthenon - built for the culminating ceremony of the celebration of Athena’s birthday
(the Panathenaic Procession)
- They sacrificed 100 bulls at the end
- Lions - confrontational, emblems
- Snakes - chthonic creatures, also emblems
- East side - entirely confrontational
- West side - a combination of confrontational and narrative
- Built on a Mycenaean palace
- The entrance is on the West side of the Acropolis - the part that is farthest from the
divine, the least sacred part
- The approach is conditioned in some ways reminiscent of that of Tiryns, which
we studied before
- The eastern part housed temples
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Make a detailed definition and analysis of monumentality. There is a fallacious view that the first pediments were made by less competent people and that the later were better. Olympia is well preserved because it is on a plain. It was never build over and was simply covered by rivers. There is no ambiguity as to which pediment is the front and which is the back. One pediment is at the east, the other at the west end. The back was in profile, there was no invasion of our space, it was violent and moving, changing, thus it is narrative. The front is confrontational, it breaks into our space. Built in the last quarter of the 6th century b. c. The front is very well preserved, the back is poorly preserved. Parthenon - built for the culminating ceremony of the celebration of athena"s birthday (the panathenaic procession) They sacrificed 100 bulls at the end.

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