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athens art and architecture.

  • key playas
    • phidias-archirect of zues athens
    • Polyclitus-atheletes
  • key buildings
    • parthenon
    • theartre of dionysus
    • temple of zues/athena
    • erechtheion
  • purpose of buildings
    • politics
    • religion
    • center of society
    • entertainmet
  • Time and Cost
    • parthenon cost 469 silver talents
      • 447bc to 432 bc
    • temple of olympian zues
      • 6th century
      • stopped cause of lack of money
  • incline/decline
    • collapse of athens
    • spartans had man shortage
      • wanst much being made

Religion in Greece

  • Myths
    • played bifg role in religion
    • consisted on many animals and gods
      • heracles odsseys, theseus, minotaur,nymphs, dryads
    • stories of how the gods affected humans
    • revolved around trojan war
    • Homer was most famous trojan war poet
    • aftermath of war
  • why they prayed
    • made sacrifeises
    • sign of devotion
    • ask what to do
    • make them better after death
  • where did they pray
    • alters, in a temple
  • what happened
    • bring gifts to alter
      • food, dead poeple
      • wine
  • Polytheism or monothesism
    • p. religion of many gods
    • zeus,poseiden, ares, hermes, athena, ect.
    • m. is religion of only one god
      • first god was sol invictus
  • Gods and Goddeses
    • Ares, god of war
    • dionysus, god of wine,
    • athena, goddes of arts and crafts
    • hades, god of underworld
    • apollo, god of healing
    • artemis, god of hut
    • aphrodite, beauty and love
    • zues, king of gods
    • poseidon, king of sea
    • hermes, god of animal husbandry

 

 

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