How To Use Parthenon In A Sentence
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There's the Parthenon, built in 446 B.C., with its colonnade of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure.
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That is, the interpretation of the Acropolis as an archetypal composition of primary building types: the Parthenon, a trabeated temple (columns and beams), and the Erechtheum, a building composed of walls.
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The raw energy, just curbed by their athletic riders, of the Parthenon horses comes to us straight from the ice age, from the dawn of humanity.
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The building was a prodigious limestone parthenon done in the early thirties in the Civic Moderne style.
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The great circular altar may yet be traced at the east front of the Parthenon, which was hypaethral.
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Name a neighbourhood and chances are it has its own Parthenon-styled eatery, complete with the requisite souvlaki, tzatziki and calamari.
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I mean the kind of colossal gold and ivory “chryselephantine” in academic jargon creations that once dominated the inside of the Parthenon or the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
A glimpse of Greece in Bologna
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The Parthenon is a magnificent structure.
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Though of Western design, the ensemble had been created for the Old Summer Palace near Beijing, whose looting and destruction in 1860 by Anglo-French forces (led by General Cousin-Montauban and the eighth Lord Elgin, whose father acquired marbles from the Parthenon) has become a symbol of national humiliation for the Chinese.
The Affair of the Chinese Bronze Heads
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Until the completion of the Parthenon, the opisthodomos of the pre-Persian temple might properly be
The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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The ancient Greeks used a technique known as entasis which incorporates a slight convexity in the columns of the Parthenon to compensate for the illusion of concavity created by parallel lines.
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Maybe not, but then they might reasonably counter with the question: is the Parthenon strictly necessary?
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Outstanding buildings constructed in the 5th-century rebirth of Athens include the PARTHENON and Erechtheum on the acropolis.
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The great circular altar may yet be traced at the east front of the Parthenon, which was hypaethral.
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The Greek Parthenon is not only religious activity center, is citizenship social activities and business activities, or storage place where public wealth.
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While many may think of the classical tradition of Greek culture, such as that articulated in the columns and architraves of the Parthenon, Calatrava also drew from a later Greek tradition: the Byzantine.
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the plundering of the Parthenon
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The exaggeration in the entasis of the archaic column disappears, its tapering was diminished, its height increased, and the overhang of the capitals reduced, till in the Theseion (465 B. C.) and the Parthenon (450-438 B. C.) we reach the final inimitable type.
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
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I suspect that the stereobate of the Parthenon has a flat surface, the famous curvature being introduced in the stylobate.
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The divine element in humanity has revealed itself in that instinct for creativeness which is always striving for expression in the work of humanity; that instinct which blindly pushes its way through rudimentary stages of effort to the possession of skill; slowly transforming itself meanwhile into intelligence, and flowering at last in the Parthenon, the Cathedral at
Essays on Work and Culture
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He begins by reading AVREA for the AENEA of most manuscripts, taking _uel eburna uel aurea custos_ to refer to the chryselephantine statue in the Parthenon, 'sed altius consideranti locum apparet de duplici statua Mineruae agi, altera eburnea, altera aenea'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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So, in truth, the Parthenon is a special memorial which functions as a technology for channeling individual desire into the production of a national sodality premised on an invented tradition and its redeployment in support of imperialism.
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece
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An immense, columned temple built almost entirely of marble, Athens's ancient Parthenon is the consummate example of classical Greek architecture.
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The opisthodomos, which was injured by fire at some time not definitely ascertained (but probably not very far from the date of the fire in the Erechtheion), was the opisthodomos of the Parthenon.
The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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Like any stunning structure from the past, like the Parthenon or the Pyramids, they grab attention and arrest the imagination of people from all over.
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From their arrival in England the ‘Elgin Marbles’ had a revolutionary impact on European taste, and the Parthenon sculptures are still considered to mark the apogee of Greek art.
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The basilica, and the Parthenon itself, became the forefathers of the mosque and the church.
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Consolidation of a column in the Parthenon's opisthodomos (rear chamber) (Spencer P.M. Harrington) [LARGERIMAGE]
Acropolis Update
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The seat of government is a long, self-imposing, hubristic strip of robber-baron parthenons, built, oxymoronically, like banks and temples.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Parthenon in Greece, the downtown police station in Venice.
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A country is fundamentally a concept, and it is natural and built symbols like our Washington Monument, Japan's Mount Fuji, Saudi Arabia's Mecca, Greece's Parthenon, Mexico's Zocalo Square or Namibia's Sossusvlei desert that lend it a physical presence.
Jake Townsend: Metaphors Made Real: On the Power of National Symbols
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You can see the Parthenon from anywhere in Athens, gleaming whitely on the Acropolis.
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When Greeks talk about their missing marbles, they are usually referring to Lord Elgin's souvenir-hunting around the Parthenon.
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An immense, columned temple built almost entirely of marble, Athens's ancient Parthenon is the consummate example of classical Greek architecture.
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One other thing that made the Parthenon building grand was the large statue of Athena Parthenos which was held in the cella and framed by large columns all around it.
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Forget the Parthenon and the Acropolis; these days the Patriot Missile launchers unsubtly stationed across the city are the tourist sites du jour.
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cella" of the Parthenon was lighted, in view of the danger, in case of open skylights, of damage to the holy image by wind and rain.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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Pericles was the force behind many of the buildings on the acropolis, including the Parthenon itself.
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The Greek archaeologist Manolis Korres has been working on the Acropolis for 25 years, devising diagrams in accordance with the precisions made by the architects of the Parthenon, Ietinus and Callicrates.
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The cropping, the strenuous poses and the three-quarter positioning are especially reminiscent of the fragmented figures of struggling warriors on the Parthenon metopes.
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Additionally, the Parthenon Marbles have always been on show here free of charge, a generosity unmatched in Athens.
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Every facet and broken stone of the Parthenon, on its high crag, was brown and clear-cut as crystal.
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They came from the Parthenon, which marks the highest pinnacle of classical Doric architecture.
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Work on the temple continued until 432; the Parthenon, then, represents the tangible and visible efflorescence of Athenian imperial power, unencumbered by the depradations of the Peloponnesian War.
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Within that huge space, the marbles will be arrayed around the outside of a rectangular structure that is the same length and width as the Parthenon.
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In a photograph taken of me on my tenth birthday — that, by simple calculation, had to be in the year 1955, in the time of Eisenhower — I, David Hanna Shaw, am standing alone on the summit of the Acropolis against the whiteness of the ruined Parthenon and the dazzling blue of Grecian sky, garbed in a flawless replica of the evzone military regalia.
The Luxembourg Run
