Which building on the Athenian Acropolis is not a temple?

Which building on the Athenian Acropolis is not a temple?

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Over some 50 years, the Periclean building program produced not only the large temple to Athena Parthenos (“Athena the Virgin,” in Greek), but the Propylaea, the gateway to the Acropolis, as well as two smaller temples, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike.

Q. What did the Athenians build on the Acropolis?

Around 490 B.C., the Athenians started building a majestic marble temple known as the Old Parthenon. By that time, the Bluebeard Temple had been demolished by the Persians. In 480 B.C., the Persians attacked again and burned, leveled and looted the Old Parthenon and almost every other structure at the Acropolis.

Q. What are 3 of the buildings on the Acropolis that were put up as part of this program?

The building program of Pericles Among the buildings that would be constructed was the Propylaea (a new entrance building), a sanctuary to Athena Nike, a temple called the Erechtheion and of course, the Parthenon, an iconic temple dedicated to Athena, whose name means “the house [or temple] of the virgin goddess.”

Q. Who stole the Elgin marbles?

Thomas Bruce

Q. Why are the Elgin Marbles so controversial?

Greece maintains they were taken illegally during the country’s Turkish occupation and should be returned for display in Athens. The Greek government has disputed the British Museum Trustees’ legal title to the sculptures. Some suggest that Lord Elgin bribed Turkish officials and effectively stole the marbles.

Q. How much did Lord Elgin pay for the marbles?

In 1816, Parliament paid £350,000 for the Parthenon Marbles – most of which went to Elgin’s many creditors – and a new home was found at the British Museum, albeit initially in a shed.

Q. Why does Greece want the Elgin marbles back?

“Since September 2003 when construction work for the Acropolis Museum began, Greece has systematically demanded the return of the sculptures on display in the British Museum because they are the product of theft,” the country’s culture minister Lina Mendoni told the Greek newspaper Ta Nea.

Q. Where did the Parthenon marble come from?

The quarry region is at Dionysos of Attica, at Dionyssovouni site, and has the same chemical composition and texture as the renowned since antiquity Pentelic marble. The Penteli quarries were the main source of marble not only for the construction of Parthenon and other buildings of the Acropolis.

Q. What is Pentelic marble?

Pentelic marble from the quarries at Penteli north of Athens is a fine-grained calcitic marble. Pentelic marble was used for most of the major monuments of Classical Athens, especially from the 5th century BC onwards and was the first white marble to be used in significant quantities at Rome, in the 2nd century BC.

Q. What were the materials used to build the Parthenon?

The main building material was Pentelic marble quarried from the flanks of Mt. Pentelikon, located about 10 mi/ 16 km from Athens. (The old Parthenon, the one destroyed by the Persians while it was partway through construction was the first temple to use this kind of marble.)

Q. Was the Parthenon bombed?

Indeed, few cultural monuments demonstrate this more perfectly than the Athenian Parthenon, which was unceremoniously bombed in 1687 by a Venetian-led army of mercenaries hired by Poland, Venice, and the Vatican—the very Europeans whose culture it is meant to embody—to push the Ottoman Turks out of Europe.

Q. Who designed the Parthenon?

Ictinus

Q. Why did they build a Parthenon in Nashville?

Originally built for Tennessee’s 1897 Centennial Exposition, this replica of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece serves as a monument to what is considered the pinnacle of classical architecture. The Parthenon also serves as Nashville’s art museum.

Q. What was located on the slope of the Acropolis?

The south slope of the Acropolis played a significant role in the artistic, intellectual and religious activity of ancient Athens. It was here, in the sunniest side of the hill, the Athenians established the principal shrine of Dionysus in Attica and most importantly the theatre where the ancient Greek drama was born.

Q. What was located on the slope of Acropolis and what God was it dedicated to?

The Cave of Apollo is thought to have been in use from the 13th century BC (Mycenaean period). Above is part of the north wall of the Acropolis near the Propylaia. Apollo was worshipped here as Patroos, a patrimonial god.

Q. How many people could the Theatre of Dionysus seat?

17,000 people

Q. Who led Athens during the period considered the peak of the city?

Pericles

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