Author: Pausanias
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Mythology & Monuments of Ancient Athens
Author: Pausanias
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens Being a Translation of a Portion of The, Attica of Pausanias
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Publisher:
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Mythology & Monuments of Ancient Athens
Author: Pausanias
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Trophies of Victory
Author: T. Leslie Shear Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691170576
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics and culture. By long tradition, the victors commemorated their deliverance by dedicating thank-offerings in the sanctuaries of their gods, and the Athenians erected no fewer than ten new temples and other buildings. Because these buildings were all at some stage of construction during the political ascendency of Perikles, in the third quarter of the fifth century, modern writers refer to them collectively as the Periklean building program. In Trophies of Victory, T. Leslie Shear, Jr., who directed archaeological excavations at the Athenian Agora for more than twenty-five years, provides the first comprehensive account of the Periklean buildings as a group. This richly illustrated book examines each building in detail, including its archaeological reconstruction, architectural design, sculptural decoration, chronology, and construction history. Shear emphasizes the Parthenon's revolutionary features and how they influenced smaller contemporary temples. He examines inscriptions that show how every aspect of public works was strictly controlled by the Athenian Assembly. In the case of the buildings on the Acropolis and the Telesterion at Eleusis, he looks at accounts of their overseers, which illuminate the administration, financing, and organization of public works. Throughout, the book provides new details about how the Periklean buildings proclaimed Athenian military prowess, aggrandized the city's cults and festivals, and laid claim to its religious and cultural primacy in the Greek world.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691170576
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics and culture. By long tradition, the victors commemorated their deliverance by dedicating thank-offerings in the sanctuaries of their gods, and the Athenians erected no fewer than ten new temples and other buildings. Because these buildings were all at some stage of construction during the political ascendency of Perikles, in the third quarter of the fifth century, modern writers refer to them collectively as the Periklean building program. In Trophies of Victory, T. Leslie Shear, Jr., who directed archaeological excavations at the Athenian Agora for more than twenty-five years, provides the first comprehensive account of the Periklean buildings as a group. This richly illustrated book examines each building in detail, including its archaeological reconstruction, architectural design, sculptural decoration, chronology, and construction history. Shear emphasizes the Parthenon's revolutionary features and how they influenced smaller contemporary temples. He examines inscriptions that show how every aspect of public works was strictly controlled by the Athenian Assembly. In the case of the buildings on the Acropolis and the Telesterion at Eleusis, he looks at accounts of their overseers, which illuminate the administration, financing, and organization of public works. Throughout, the book provides new details about how the Periklean buildings proclaimed Athenian military prowess, aggrandized the city's cults and festivals, and laid claim to its religious and cultural primacy in the Greek world.
The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia
Author: Peter Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521542135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The first major study of a central cultural institution of classical Athens.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521542135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The first major study of a central cultural institution of classical Athens.
A History of Greece
Author: Philip Van Ness Myers
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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A History of Greece for Colleges and High Schools
Author: Philip Van Ness Myers
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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New International Encyclopedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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The New International Encyclopaedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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The New International Encyclop©Œdia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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