Today we are presenting our presentations. I was gone all last week so I have no idea what the project is on.
Art and Architecture: Athens
Key players
- Phidias: Parthenon, Zeus, Athena & Erechtheion
- Polyclitus-athletes
Key Buildings
- -Parthenon
- -Theatre of Dionysus, Odeon of Herodes Atticus
- -Temple of Zeus, Temple of Athena
- -Erechtheion
Purpose of buildings
-Politics
- Acropolises
-Religon
- Temples of various Gods
-Center of society
Time and cost
- Parthenon cost 469 silver talents to build ($6,804,000)
- Started building in 447 BC and finished in 432 BC
Why incline or decline?
- Collapse of Athens
- Spartans had man shortage (wasnt much being made)
Religon in Greece
Myths
- Greek mythology played a large rile in their religon
- There myths consisted of stories on how the gods affected humans on earth
- There myths often revolved around heroes such as Heracles, Odysseyds, Jason, Theeus and Minotaur
- Most of the myths revolved around the trojan war between Troy and Greece
- The Iliad, a poem by Homer, is one of the most famous peoms around the trojan war
Why did they pray?
- Made sacrifices because they thought it was a good sign of devotion
- Prayed to gods to ask them about their futures on earth
- Prayed hoping it would improve how their lives on earth would be, and so the gods would take care of them after they died
- They prayed at alters, inside the temple, where they would put there gifts and sacrifices
- Liberations($ wines) were offered as well
- Food could be considered as a gift
- Each alter was devoted to one god
- Pharmakos is someone sentenced to death but is used a s a scarifice
- They prayed at a proper funeral where the person would enter the under world, if they prayed wrong they would enter the upper world and haunt people for praying wrong
Polythesim or Monothesim?
- P is the religion of many gods and goddesses
- This was worshiped until M took over
- M is the religon of only one god
- The first M god was Sol Invictus (The invincible sun)
- He was 1st worshiped around 274 A.D. when roman Emperor Aurelian made it the officail cult alongside the troditional roman cults
- Greek orthodox church is the biggest church..?
Gods & Goddesses
- Ares was the god of war and violence. Penthesilea and Hipppolyte were his daughters, Are was more important to romans than greeks
- Dionysus was the god of fertility and wine. He was the son of Zeus. He created the art of tending grapes.
- Athena was the goddess of wisdom and arts and crafts
- Hades was respected as the god of the underworld and afterlife. He was not worshiped much
- Apollo was the god of healing and music and poetry and protection of the young. He is also a son of Zeus. He slayed a seprent python
- Artemis was the god of the hunt she was prayed to before war
- Aphprodite was the god of beauty and love
- Zeus was the king of gods
- Poseidon was the king of the sea he was prayed t for safe travel across the sea. He is respected by all sea creatures
- Hermes is the god of the animal husbandry, roads, travel hospitality, trade, athletic contest, astromony.
They believed in morality which is the fear of committing Hubris.
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