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The Athenian Acropolis Image courtesy of Jack Versloot on flickr. License CC BY. 1 Temple of Athena Parthenos Image courtesy of Steve Swayne. Source: Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY. Dates: 447 work initiated 438 cult

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The Athenian Acropolis

Image courtesy of Jack Versloot on flickr. License CC BY.

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Dates:

  • 447 – work initiated
  • 438 – cult statue dedicated
  • 433/2 - completed

Temple of Athena Parthenos

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Architects: Iktinos, Kallikrates, Karpion. Supervisor: Phidias ‘…director and supervisor of the whole project’ (Plut., Per. 13).

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Poseidonia Temple of Hera

  • c. 540-530 BC

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Model Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Inside the Naos

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Pausanias 1.24.5

  • As you enter the temple that they name

the Parthenon, all the sculptures you see

  • n what is called the pediment refer to the

birth of Athena, those on the rear pediment represent the contest for the land between Athena and Poseidon.

From Pausanias: Description of Greece, with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones. This material is in the public domain.

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This image is in the public domain.

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Birth of Athena Phrynos Painter, c. 560 BC (London B 424)

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East pediment figures British Museum

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Remains of the west pediment

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‘Isis’ (British Museum)

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‘Ilissos’ (British Museum)

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Image courtesy of Jean-Pierre Dalbéra on flickr. License CC BY. Image courtesy of virtusincertus on flickr. License CC BY.

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Image courtesy of Eden, Janine and Jim on flickr. License CC BY.

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Image courtesy of Jagrap on flickr. License CC BY-NC.

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Image courtesy of Sebastià Giralt on flickr. License CC BY-NC-SA.

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East Frieze – Women Attendants

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Elders / Eponymous Heroes

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Image courtesy of Jean-Pierre Dalbéra on flickr. License CC BY.

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MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu

21H.237 The City of Athens in the Age of Pericles

Fall 2014 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms.

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