Ancient Athens Architecture and Art
- Ancient Agora of Athens
- marketplace for scoila, commecercial, and religios events
- Temple of Zeus at olympia
- ancient greek temple in olympia dedicated to the chief of the gods sues
- very model of full developed classical greek temple of the doric order
- Segesta's temple
- political temple for the elymian people
- Delphi Treasury
- built to protect valuables
- such as gold or silver from representatives from city states
- Parthenon
- Temple dedicated to Athena
- Made of pentelic marble
- One of the most monumental representative symbols of the culture
- Athena
- the parthenon was the temple of athena and stayed intact until 1687
- there were two statues of athena on inside the parthenon and one outside
- both statues are gone, but a temple from 400 bc remains
- Acropolis
- means the highest point of the town
- a home to kings, several temples, shrines, and sanctuaries
- Arch of Hadrian
- Monumental gateway across an ancient road in the center of athens, leading to a complex of buildings and structure
- Temple of Athena Nike
- Made to worship the greek goddess of athens
- Greek parliament
- palace for kings otto and george I
- also served as parliament and senate building
- Theatre of Dionysus
- where songs and dances were performed to honor Dionysus
- Panathenaic Stadium
- were males competed in events similar to track and field
- Library of Hadrian
- consisted of lecture halls, studies, and a library
- Art
- one of the things that survived to our day from the golden age is the minoan art
- it provides insight into the cutlure that flourished in crete
- not much art survived from the prepalaial period
- the art in athens is some of the most unique in the world
- their artistic abilities were shown through sculptures, pottery, and jewelry
- Theater
- the athenians had great theater art in the golden age
- arion created chorus singing and the chorus became part of plays
- one actor played mutliple roles by wearing different masks and costumes
- the theater in itself was a semi circle, the high class people like the government officials and judges, mayors sons and the commoners sat in the middle to the back of the theater
- Architecture
- the greeks developed three architectural designs (for pillars)
- doric, ionic, and corinthian
Greek military
- delian league
- founded by the athenians after the persian wars
- the name is derived from the official meeting place of the league delos
- the league was a sort of confederacy dividing greece into 5 districts: thrace, hellespont, ionia, caria, and the islands
- it was a military organizationw hose purpose was to keep pushing the persians out of greece
- over time, athens started turning the league into an empire
- the first member that tried to secede was Naxos
- after the rebellion, the had to tear down their walls, give up their naval fleet, and lose their vote in the league
- other purposes besides driving out persia was to prepare for future invasions and organize a means of dividing the spoils of war
- the league ended when spartans captured athens
- Grecian Warriors
- the roles in the war were to protect their country
- warriors fought for their own personal glory instead of in an organized formation
- the soldier farmers had tended to their farms before battles
- death in war was the most glorious way to die
- outside of being the warriors they lived normal lives like raising crops and having families
- the down side was that they had to fight whenever they were called to fight
- Key players
- themistoles of the greeks dursian wars spartans attempted to hold the pass of thermopylae
- the greek fleet was made of 300 ships, 200 of which were athenian
- wanted to stay at salamis he began a fight by sending a servant to xerxes saying athens wanted to switch sides
- darius said his son Xerxes was associated with the persian wars
- Leonidas was a 5th century bc spartan military king
- Archidamus II was king of sparta. one of hisconflicts was called the Archidamian war
- Phormio, most importantathenian commander during the peloponnesian war
- Archidamus II, themistocles, king darius, king leonidas, xerxes, demosthenes, brasidas, phormio
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