ARHI 30120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Doric Order, Cyclopean Masonry, Mycenaean Greece
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Advice: go to architecture and meaning and look over the chapters on the periclean acropolis. Pick out one that you want to learn more about. This will be a primary source paper. Analyze it in terms of its monumentality. We will be reconstructing the visual approach to the building, then establishing a clear definition of monumentality and how it pertains to the particular monument that you pick. Megaron used for temple construction and 1st goddess is hera. Religious importance of ancestors, almost a worship of them. Vetruvius" view: they were intellectual, not passionate. If this is the case, we don"t have to worry about religion. E. g. the coloring of the temples - they were very brightly colored. The greeks were passionate about their ancestors. Wall - sanctuary of hera across the argive plane from argos. Imitating the mycenaeans to elevate it in a monumental way by association.
