The Acropolis Through its Museum (English language edition) - Softcover

Valavanis, Panos

 
9789606878619: The Acropolis Through its Museum (English language edition)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9606878619 ISBN 13: 9789606878619
Verlag: ISD International - IPSUK, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This is not simply a guidebook to the Acropolis Museum: by presenting the works of art exhibited in the museum, it endeavours to resynthesize the history of the Sacred Rock as part of the cultural and the wider historical process of Athens.
Following the sequence of the visitor’s tour of the museum, it is lavishly illustrated with photographs, as well as with numerous plans and reconstruction drawings, which enable the reader to understand each of the fragmentarily preserved works in its context. It also answers many of the questions raised in the discerning reader’s mind: what was the size and the population of ancient Athens? what is the meaning of the beasts represented on the large Archaic pediments? what do the Korai statues represent? why did the Erechtheion become so complex and what was the role of the Karyatids? why was the temple of Athena Nike built in the Ionic order? what led Pericles and his advisers to opt for the specific building programme and how were the major public works financed? why was it decided to place an Ionic frieze on the Doric Parthenon? what political messages were transmitted to Sparta through the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon?

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Panos Valavanis is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Athens University.

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Verlag
ISD International - IPSUK
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9606878619
ISBN 13 
9789606878619
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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