Ancient Athens Architecture
Ancient Arora of Athens
-marketplace for social commercial and religious events
Temple of Zeus at Olympia
-ancient greek temple in olympia dedicated to the chief of the gods of zeus
-built between 472 and 456 bc
Segestas Temple
-political temple for the elymian people
Dephi Tresury
-built to protect valuables
-such as gold or silver from the city-states
Parthenon
-temple dedicated to athena
-made of pentelic marble
-one of the most monumental representatives symbols of the culture
Athena
-the parthenon was the temple of athena and stayed intact until 1687
-there were two statues of athena one inside and one outside of the parthenon
-both statues of athena are gone but a temple from 400 bc remains
acropolis
-means highest point of the town
-a home to kings several temples shrnes and sanctuaries
arch of hadrian
-monumental gateway across an ancient road in the center of athens leading to a complex of buildings
temple of athena nike
-made to whoship the greek goddess athens
Greek parliament
-palace of kings otto and george the first
-also served as a paliament and senate building
Theatre of Dionysus
-where songs and dances were preformed to honor dionysus
Panathenaic stadium
-where males competed in events similar to track and field
Library of Hadrian
-consisted of lecture halls studies and a library
art
-one of things that survived to our day from the golden age is the minoan art
-it provides insight into the culture that flourished in the crete
-not much art survived from the prepalaial period
-the art in athens is some of the most unique in the world
-their artistic ablities were shown
Theater
-a athenians had a great theater are in the golden age
-arion created chorus singing and the chorus became part of the plays
-one actor played mutiple roles by wearing different masks and costumes
-contained high class people
architecture
-the greeks developed 3 designs
--doric is plain and simple
--ionic is thinner and more decorated
--corinthian is fancy
Greek Military
Delian League
-founded by the athenians after the persian wars
- the name derived from the officaila meeting place of the league delos
-the league was a sort of confederacy dividing greece into 5 districts tharace hellespont ionia caria and the islands
-it was a military orginization whose purpose was to eep pushing the persians out of greece
-overtime it became a empire
-the pelopennisian war started because of the league making athens to powerful went up against sparta and its allies
-the first member of the league that attempted to secede was naxos
-after rebellion was put down they had to tear down their walls give up their naval fleet and lose their vote in the league
-purpose was to prepare for future incasions
-ended in 404 bc when spartans cmptured athens
grecian warriors
-the ancient greece roles in the war were to protect their country
-the warriors fount for their own personal glory
-death in war was the most glourious way to die
-the farmer soldiers had to tend to their farm before battle
-outside of being warrior the lived normal lives
-you were suppose to fight whenever they told you to
Grecian Armor- made of bronze
Key Players
-themistoles was the leader 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
-darius said his son xerxes was associated with the persian wars
-themistcies wanted to stay at salamis
-leonidas was a 5th centuary bc spartan miltary king
-archidamus the second was king of sparta from 469 to 427 bc
-phormio was important athenion commander during the peloponnesian war
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