The Athenian Acropolis

The Athenian
Acropolis
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Marathon
Runner
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Thermopylae
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Athenian
Acropolis
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Bust of Pericles
• Elected as
“Defender” of Athens
for several
consecutive years
• Had a dream of
rebuilding Athens
and glorifying
Athena
• Note its Classical
features
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TEMPLE OF
ATHENA NIKE
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Nike adjusting
her sandal, south
side of the
Temple of
Athena Nike, on
Acropolis,
Athens, ca. 410
BCE
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Propylaea
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MNESIKLES, Propylaia (looking southwest), Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 437–432 BCE.23
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View of Athens from the Propylaea
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View from the stairs up to the propylaea.
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Athena Promachos
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Propylaea
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View from inside the propylaia, looking at
the old temple to Athena
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Erechtheion
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Erechtheion (looking northwest), Acropolis, Athens, Greece,
ca. 421–405 BCE.
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Sanctuary of
Erechtheus, Kekrops,
Poseidon and Athena
designed by
Mnesikles
430-405 B.C.E.
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ERECTHEION
Porch of Maidens
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Parthenon
(Temple of Athena
Parthenos)
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Plan for a “generic” Greek Temple
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Ever wonder
what the inside
of a column
looks like?
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Doric Column
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LOCAL MODERN EXAMPLES: DORIC - MILLER CHAPEL OF
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL CENTER
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Temple of Hera I at Paestum
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Temple of Hera II at Paestum
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Temple of Aphaia
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Ionic Column
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LOCAL MODERN EXAMPLES: IONIC - NASSAU
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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Ionic base
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Corinthian Column
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LOCAL MODERN EXAMPLES: CORINTHIAN - THE PRAYER
ROOM OF NASSAU HALL
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Parthenon Architecture
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Athena Parthenos
designed by Pheidias
interior of Parthenon
original gold and ivory
statue (now lost)
447-432 B.C.E.
(This is a Roman copy)
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The Doric Metopes
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Lapith versus Centaur
Parthenon, Acropolis,
Athens
ca. 447-438
marble
4 ft. 8 in. high
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East Pediment
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East Pediment
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Helios and his horses, and Dionysos (Herakles?), from the east
pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 438–432
BCE. Marble, greatest height 4’ 3”. British Museum, London.
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Three goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?), from the east
pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 438–432
BCE. Marble, greatest height 4’ 5”. British Museum, London.
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Three
goddesses,
east
pediment of
Parthenon,
ca. 438 – 432
BCE
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West Pediment
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West
pediment
figure from
Parthenon in
the British
Museum
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West Pediment Parthenon
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West pediment figure from Parthenon in the British
Museum
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Archaic
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
Ca. 500 BCE
Early Classical
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
Ca. 490 BCE
High Classical
Parthenon, Athens
448-432 BCE
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Ionian Frieze on
the Parthenon is
of the Panathenaic
Festival
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PANATHENAIC PROCESSION
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Details of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze, from the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca.
447–438 BCE. Marble, 3’ 6” high. Horsemen of north frieze (top), British Museum, London; seated gods and
goddesses (Poseidon, Apollo, and Artemis) of east frieze (center), Acropolis Museum, Athens; and elders and
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maidens of east frieze (bottom), Louvre, Paris.
ELGIN MARBLES - CAVALCADE
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ELGIN MARBLES - HORSEMEN
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ELGIN MARBLES - TERROR OF HEIFERS
DOOMED
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ELGIN MARBLES - ATHENIANS CARRYING HYDRIAI IN
OFFERING TO ATHENA
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ELGIN MARBLES - HORSEMEN'S
DEPARTURE
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Theater of Dionysus on southern slope of the
Acropolis, Athens
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