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The Athenian Acropolis: The Building Program of Pericles Acropolis in 480 BC Acropolis, post-480 wall Athens, Acropolis: View towards Piraeus and the sea 1. Panathenaic procession 2. Propylaia Greek architectural


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 The Athenian Acropolis: 
 The Building Program of Pericles 


  2. Acropolis in 480 BC

  3. Acropolis, post-480 wall

  4. Athens, Acropolis: View towards Piraeus and the sea

  5. 1. Panathenaic procession 2. Propylaia

  6. Greek architectural “orders”

  7. Erechtheion/Erechtheum Caryatid porch

  8. Erechtheion – Walls of Temple of Athena Polia

  9. Propylaia/Propylaea

  10. 1. Panathenaic procession 2. Propylaia

  11. Temple of Athena Nike

  12. Temple of Athena Nike – Nike adjusting her sandal (metope)

  13. 
 
 
 
 The Parthenon 
 


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 The Parthenon 
 
 Man is the measure of all things. – Protagoras If human is the measure of everything, then who is 
 to measure a human? – Arabella (redacted)

  15. “entasis” – deliberate curvature

  16. Parthenon - Metopes

  17. Athenian Tribute List

  18. The Metopes – south side Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs (other metopes: Greeks and Amazons; Sack of Troy)

  19. The Frieze – interior – in relief Procession (Panathenaic Festival?)

  20. (Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema)

  21. The Olympian gaze

  22. Compare the gaze in early classical sculpture: Blond Boy and Kritios Boy (480 BC) Kritios Boy Blond Boy

  23. Kritios Boy

  24. Parthenon – Frieze, Pediment

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