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MDS2/3 TGW Ancient Greece: Sources & Documents II Artefacts Gillian Shepherd
Image Source Page: h5p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:acropolis- Athens34.jpg The Acropolis, Athens
Suppose, for example, that the city of Sparta were to become deserted and that only the temples and foundations of buildings remained, I think that future generations would, as time passed, find it very difficult to believe that the place had really been as powerful as it was represented to be. Yet the Spartans occupy two- fifths of the Peloponnese and stand at the head not only of the whole Peloponnese itself but also of numerous allies beyond its frontiers. Since, however, the city is not regularly planned and contains no temples or monuments of great magnificence, but is simply a collection of villages in the ancient Hellenic way, its appearance would not come up to expectation. If, on the other hand, the same thing were to happen to Athens, one would conjecture from what met the eye that the city had been twice as powerful as in fact it is. We have no right, therefore, to judge cities by their appearances rather than by their actual power Thuc. I. 10.
? Was Thucydides right? Image Source Page: h5p://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/file:acropolis- Athens34.jpg Photo Gillian Shepherd Photo Gillian Shepherd Photo Gillian Shepherd
Erechtheion The Athenian Acropolis Parthenon Propylaea Temple of Athena Nike Image Source Page: h5p://www.absolutatenas.com/la- acropolis/
The Parthenon 469 talents (from building accounts) 1 talent = 60 minae (Attic-Euboic standard) 1 mina = 100 drachmae I.E. 2,814,000 drachmae 1 dr. = approx. 1 day s wage $100 million? (probably not, but you get the idea)
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The Kritios Boy Acropolis, Athens c. 480 BC NB: relative chronology absolute chronology Image source page: h5p://www.oberlin.edu/images/art336/366-020.jpg
Dating the ancient Greek way State calendars Lunar months (new moon, new month) 12 lunar months a solar year Intercalation Lists of officials for each year
Image source page: h5p://www.agathe.gr/image?id=agora:image:2004.02.0023&w=800&h=600 Fragment of an inscribed archon list (c. 425?), listing archons under the tyranny of Hippias (527-522 BC). Athens, Agora Museum (I 4120)
The thirty years truce which was entered into after the reconquest of Euboea lasted for fourteen years. In the fifteenth year, the forty-eighth year of the priestess-ship of Chrysis at Argos, the year when Aenesias was ephor at Sparta, and two months before the end of the archonship of Pythodorus at Athens, six months after the battle at Potidaea, just at the beginning of spring, a Theban force of rather over 300 men... made an armed entry into Plataea... Thuc. II.2
The Persians sack the Acropolis Haaren, J.H. & Poland, A.B. Famous Men of Greece New York, 1904 Image source page: h5p://www.mainlesson.com/books/haaren/greece/zpage137.gif
Image source page: h5p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:perserschu5.gif Statue dedications buried after the Persian sack
Image source page: h5p://www.oberlin.edu/images/art336/366-020.jpg NB Terminus ante quem Terminus post quem
Erechtheion The Athenian Acropolis Parthenon Image Source Page: h5p://www.williamhenry.net/conference08.html Propylaea Temple of Athena Nike Image Source Page: h5p://www.absolutatenas.com/la- acropolis/
Image source page: h5p://www.stoa.org/athens/sites/northslope/image/p08080.jpg North Wall, Acropolis Image source page: h5p://www.uark.edu/campus- resources/dlevine/northacropoliswall.jpg
Image Source Page: h5p://classconnecuon.s3.amazonaws.com/211/flashcards/2133211/png/bronze13184260181911350626129046.png Berlin Foundry Cup Foundry Painter Red figure kylix, c. 490
Cf. Thuc. 2. 13; Pausanias I.24.5; Pliny Natural History 36.18 ff. And: Image Source Page: h5p://www.williamhenry.net/conference08.html Nashville, Tennessee Athena Parthenos? Reproduction based on evidence for the original of c. 440 by Pheidias Source Page: h5p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/athena_parthenos Varvarkeion Athena (2 nd cent. AD)
Photo G. Shepherd The Acropolis, Athens NB: positivist fallacy
Image Source Page:h5p://jYradu.free.fr/GRECEANTIQUE/GRECE%20CONTINENTALE/PAGES%20THEMATIQUES/restauraUon- acropole.php3?r1=0&r2=0&r3=0 Bombardment of the Parthenon by Morosini (1687)
Image Source Page: h5p://www.baroque- in- art.org/study- of- a- pediment- from- the- Parthenon- large.html Parthenon, West Pediment (Jacques Carrey)
Image source page: h5p://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/piraeus_mikrolimano1.jpg Pireaus, Athens (Zea)
Image source page: h5p://www.greece- athens.com/pages_images/76.jpg The skeuotheke (arsenal) at Pireaus Architect Philon ( 4 th cent. BC) IG II 2 1668
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Image source page: h5p://www.sofiaoriginals.com/mar6314.jpg The Arsenal! Image source page: h5p://greecefsp2013.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/day- 57- wednesday- march- 15th/
Image source page: h5p://www.abc.se/~m10354/bld/img/olympram.jpg The trireme Olympias Image source page: h5p://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp98/d- Mitch_photos/trihrhs01.jpg
Image source page: h5p://www.sofiaoriginals.com/mar6313.jpg Shipsheds, Zea
Image source page: h5p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:acma_relief_lenormant.jpg The Lenormant Relief (late 5 th cent. BC)
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