ARTH 1380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ionic Order, Doric Order, Propylaea
26 Jul 2016
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Important figure of the persian war and a interesting speaker. Greek are impressed to the people who have a rhetorical speaking skills. Largely a functional city to connect to their gods. Rebuilding of the acropolis at the 450 bc: parthenon. Key monuments, a major temple for the goddess of athena: propylaia. Painting museum: erechthion, temple of athena nike. Zeus ate athena because she sprung full grown from his head. Full grown as a adult and rational to the people. The more columns, mean bigger imposture of the temple. To look around and admire the structure of the temple. Compared standard peripteral temple plan with parthenon plan. It has circle around to indicate that ionic column. Unlike placing for storage, the inside contains a gigantic statue made up of ivory with gold leave. The distance between the columns, it get narrow when it reaches the corner of the temple.
