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Architecture of the ancient classical world consists of : |
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Three Historic Periods of Ancient Greece : |
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Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic |
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Main architectural advance in the Classical period of Greece = |
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The Acropolis 480-323 BCE |
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Ancient Greeks used to call themselves this.. |
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described as a city/cultural identity/city-state (example: Athens/Syracuse/Delphi) |
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Important Greek Philosophers and how they influenced the culture.. |
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Socrates, Plato, Aristotle / idealism and innovation |
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In classical Greece, an order for their architecture was... |
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a classical column and its entablature, proportioned and decorated according to accepted modes. |
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In Greek culture, what are the accepted modes of architecture. |
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1. Doric 2. Ionic 3. Corinthian |
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How long did the Classical period last and what nick-name is given to the period? |
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480-336 BCE "The Golden Age" |
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The Acropolis in Athens consists of these four major buildings... |
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- Parthenon - The Propylaea - The Erechtheion - Temple of Athena Nike |
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The battle of Marathon brings and end and beginning. They are? |
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End : Persian War Beginning: Golden Age |
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connecting road between Acropolis and Agora |
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Goddess of Athens (war/wisdom) |
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Located on the acropolis is a massive towering statue of this Goddess |
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Athena Promachos (The Champion) |
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Ruler of Athens from461 - 429 BCE ? |
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Perikles is known for what? |
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rebuilding Athens as a major cultural center attributed as started of the Greek Acropolis |
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Order in which buildings were built on the Athenian Acropolis: |
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1. The Parthenon 2. The Propylaea 3. Temple of Athena Nike 4. The Erechtheion |
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The circulation within the Acropolis was set up this way? |
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Unrestricted > metaphor for "democracy" & sited buildings for an "oblique view" |
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- Architect = Mnesikles - Patron = Periclles - Gateway to Acropolis - Built from 437-432 BCE |
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Temple of Athena Facts...(3) |
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- Architect = Believed to be Kallikrates - Patron Periclles - Built in 425 BCE |
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The Erchtheion facts.... (5) |
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1. Architect = Mnesikiles 2. Built from 421-407 BCE 3. Built over the tomb of the fiorst king of Athens (Kekrops) 4. Shrine to both Poseidon and Athena 5. caryatids = maidens |
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The Architects of the Parthenon are? |
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The Parthenon houses what statue and who sculpted it? |
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos holding Nike Sculptor= Phidias |
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The Pediments of the Parthenon depict... (2) |
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East = Birth of Athena West = Athenas fight with Posidon |
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Athena Poseidon Kekrops Erechtheus |
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The Hellenistic Period time? buildings? |
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336-30 BCE
Temple of Appolo at Didyma The Theater at Epidauros The Stoa at Attalos |
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In the hellenistic period, when did Greece join the republic of Rome? |
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The Tholos at Delphi was built when and for? |
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390-380 BCE for the Oracles |
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Facts about Alexander the Great (3) |
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Starts the City of Alexandria in Egypt Starts the Hellenistic Period in Greece Spreads Greek language and culture to Egypt, India, and Mesopotamia |
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The Theater of Epidarus: architect? time? fact? |
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architect: Polykleitus the Younger time: 350 BCE fact: sat 14,000 people |
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Stoa of Attalos facts (2) |
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- 21 shops in 2 story building - located in the agora |
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Temple of Apollo at Didyma: time? |
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A Hellenistic building similar, but bigger than the Parthenon = |
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The Temple of Artimis at Ephesus |
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