Apollo Temple At Delphi

Just before you go to sleep, you image yourself taking a ride to the White House. You then notice it's beautiful columns. As you look through columns, this type of architecture is ancient Greek. There are other place to find these Greek columns. Besides architecture, other developments from ancient civilizations have an impact on our world today, such as roads and Gregorian calendar.

The Parthenon was an amazing and expensive achievement of ancient Greece. Although it is mostly in ruins today, there is enough knowledge about its construction to allow others to recreate the structure. The Parthenon is often constructed not only to honor the ancient Greeks, but also to honor the culture and place where it is recreated. Although the Parthenon’s influence is tremendous throughout the western world, it is generally only faithfully represented in part- the nearest representations found during my research include the Walhalla and the Nashville Parthenon. This paper focuses mostly on the original building’s history and its influence on American architecture, with a short discussion on a site in Germany. Research was conducted through the use of our course’s textbook, our consortium library, and educational websites. After my research was concluded, I became particularly fascinated with the golden ratio, which is debated to have been used during the construction of the Parthenon. I would like to research this in future work.

Did you know that the people who built many of the Egyptian monuments we know today (also know as slaves) suffered while making creating the monuments.Well in ancient Egypt, slaves created the monuments that there still is and many of them were killed in the process of building them. Great achievements are not worth great injustices because slaves died, they had terrible lives and they couldn’t enjoy what they had made.

In the days after the gathering in zion there will be no threat or terror but will have mercy and tenderness.

The time of the Ancient Greeks is one of the most, if not the most, influential periods since the dawn of existence. The Ancient Greeks contributed to many of the modern world concepts that are used in everyday life. The importance of the Ancient Greeks is shown, in some way, scattered through each and every day. One contribution to the Western civilization from the Ancient Greeks is architecture.

The Palace at Knossos served as a landmark with mythological implications as it was said to be the home of King Minos and also gave rise to the important myth of Theseus. The maze like system of the palace was used to tell the story of Theseus who slew the Minotaur while being hunted by the creature in the Palace’s labyrinth. The Palace was also used for storing goods like wine, grain, oil, and honey which were kept in large jars in the magazine rooms. Furthermore, the palace complex served as a government building as it had administrative and workrooms on the north and south of the east-west corridor. Interestingly, the palace may have also had an entertainment room as there is a theateresque design with steps that may have been used as seating, although its purpose is not entirely known.

During the time of prosperity in Greece, war is done, and a sculptor rebuilds Athens. Phidias, a sculptor in the Golden Age of Greece, rebuilt Athens after Persia burned the polis to the ground. He constructed temples like the Parthenon for the Acropolis and statues such as The Promachos and Statue of Zeus.

Amenhotep III reigned in ancient Egypt from roughly 1391 to 1353 B.C.E. and is most recognized for his construction of The Luxor Temple and hundreds of shrines he had built. (O’Connor, 2001) Throughout the course of this class we have been asked conceptualize different artifacts and determine what this artifact says about the royal figure that contracted it. Amenhotep’s Luxor Temple and the 250 statues that he commissioned show us that his reign was focused on impressing the rich and powerful people who surrounded him. This is based on who was intended to see the Luxor temple and what impression the temple would have left on its audience. Historians cite Akhenaten and Tutankhamun as the source of radical change in Egyptian history (Berman, 2001), when in reality Amenhotep III started the legacy of art appreciation that continued on to his successors.

There are a number of art and architectural features found in the Athenian Agora, Kerimeikos and the Acropolis. The Agora or market place has a number of buildings such as the Tholos, The Eponymous Heroes and the Strategion. The Kerimeikos or Ceramicus was the potters ' quarter of the city, from which the word "ceramic" is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected around the area. The Acropolis had many major buildings, the most prominent of them being the Parthenon and the Temple of Athena Nike. An evaluation of primary and secondary literary sources gives insight into the main purposes of the buildings and the art within such as pottery and sculptures found within the context of these sites. To an extent the art and architecture in these sites reflect the significant cultural practices and beliefs of the ancient Athenians as it gives insight into what they truly valued.

In the origins of Greece, ancient Greek mythology and sources have explained incidents of the oracles of Delphi. The Delphic oracles were primarily female prophets who were told to have inhaled certain vapors from a spring in the temple of the Greek god, Apollo, which allowed the prophets to serve as a supernatural connection to the specific God. Despite the historical evidence that supports the idea of the mysterious oracle vapors, modern day archeologists and geologists rejected the idea completely. Many of the rejections are due to the lack of archeological findings of vapors at Delphi. Two men by the name of Jelle Zeilinga De Boer, a chemist, and John Hale, an archeologist, had then stepped up to study both the geological

Somewhere around the 5th century before Christ the city of Athens was stricken with a mysterious plague, all efforts failed to stop the plague, the leaders of Athens thinking that some god had been offended so they sought for a way to appease the offended god, however this was not a easy task as Athens was know as the “god capital of the world”. Having made two visits to that city I can attest to the fact that it lives up to its name.

During the fifth century and Eighth century BCE, The Etruscan Temples and The Parthenon were built and valued by their cultures for many spiritual and cultural reasons. Similar to the Parthenon, The Etruscan Temples are built with influences from Greece. However, Both have different appearances based off of there medium, purpose, and architecture. The Etruscan Temple and the Parthenon both have strong stances within there cultures and provide peace and empowerment for the population of the time. Both structures are two similar ancient buildings, though there differences in culture and architecture set them apart.

Socrates in using statues of Daedalus as an example discuses a relationship between opinions that happen to be true and actual knowledge or hard facts. Socrates’ point is that opinions can be decided by countless questionable factors and can heavily vary from moment to moment and go in unpredictable directions if they are not held in place. Opinions are perceptions of the world and it is possible that some align with how the world really is but often times it is quite removed from reality and therefore an ignoble outlook to see the world through. The opinions of a person, particularly uneducated and foolish opinions that are have little relation to the truth should not be respected and can be dangerous. A person may be of the opinion that the moon is hollow or is a projection made to fool the people of the world, and most would not consider this to be in any way a fact nor would they consider the person claiming this to be worth listening to besides for amusement.

During war with Persia, Athenians dealt with famine, plague, and the destruction of their city but that was not the end of Athens. Instead, Athens bounced back and thrived entering into the Golden Age. The Athenians began reconstruction after victory with Persia was secure. The new city rose from a plain and as each level went upwards, its functions and architecture became more exalted. At the bottom there was the house of commoners, built from stone and mud with little concern for architectural merit. The fine art and architecture went into public buildings, one of these public institutions being the agora. When redesigned, the agora was made to be more elegant designed for greater comfort and show. Beautiful public buildings and temples

Apollo, the sun god, was always very tired from lighting the sky all day. One day he said to his father, Zeus, “Can you find another way to light up the sky, please?”