Parthenon : temple dedicated to the Pallas Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens, the masterpiece of Greek architecture built between 447 & 432 BC under Pericles.
... uplift the spirit of every Athenian. Pheidias 11 Ictinus and Mnesicles, the best sculptors, were engaged for the fruition of this architectural programme. The Acropolis 12 was crowned with the Parthenon within which stood the marvelous statue of Athena, executed in ivory and gold by Pheidias, and the Erectheum,13 created also by Pheidias, with its colossal statue in bronze of Athena Polias, the defender... and there was also the wondrous Propylaea14 or assemblage of entrance gates that gave access to the whole. Athens witnessed the outpouring of artistic genius visible even now in the ruins of the Parthenon but also put to work the multitude of unemployed in the city bringing prosperity to the citizens at large. Parallel to the work of rebuilding of the ancient shrines and other magnificent edifices... century BC. 12. Acropolis is the Greek term for the central place of a city containing the municipal and religious buildings, preferably located on a hill, as is the one in Athens, which has the Parthenon, a temple of the goddess Athena and the treasury and other buildings located on it. For purposes of defense, early settlers naturally chose elevated ground, Page 33 frequently a hill ...
... Architecture and the arts blossomed during this time, when Pericles, a political leader, promoted the extension and beautification of the Acropolis, and Phidias, the sculptor, created the statues of the Parthenon. 3 Cultural events such as public performances of the great plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides formed part of the developing urban lifestyle. All citizens, rich or poor, could enjoy these... in 480 BC. •> 3. Acropolis is the Greek term for the central place of a city containing the municipal and religious buildings, preferably located on a hill, as ;¦ is the one in Athens. The Parthenon is the main shrine of the Athenian Acropolis dedicated to the patron deity, the goddess Athena, Page 60 Socrates' concept of the excellent and perfect human life is an integral one ...
... thought and savages lusting for beauty. Dire and fierce and formidable chieftains followed Atrides, Merciless kings of merciless men and the founders of Europe, Sackers of Troy and sires of the Parthenon, Athens and Caesar. Here they had come to destroy the ancient perishing cultures; For, it is said, from the savage we rose and were born to a wild-beast. So when the Eye supreme perceives that ...
... or Valmiki's, music more superb than the music of Beethoven or Bach, sculpture greater than the statues of Phidias and Michael Angelo, architecture more utterly beautiful than the Taj Mahal, the Parthenon or Borobudur or St. Peter's or of the great Gothic cathedrals? The same may be said of the crafts of ancient Greece and Japan in the Middle Ages or structural feats like the Pyramids or engineering ...
... of pregnant generalisations." It is too thronged "with subtle thought-matter, too brooding, sensitive, respon-sive to many things" - often things "not easily expressible" -to be capable of a "new Parthenon... whether in the white marble subdued to the hand or in the pure and lucid spacings Page 90 of the idea and the word" . 9 Turned on Nature, this mind, in its functionings outside ...
... it is tried, it is not quite genuine, for what informs it is no longer the classic spirit; it is too crowded with subtle thought-matter, too brooding, sensitive, responsive to many things; no new parthenon can be built whether in the white marble subdued to the hand or in the pure and lucid spacings of the idea and the word: the mind of man has become too full, complex, pregnant with subtle and not ...
... The Acropolis was the ancient hilltop citadel of Athens, and its ruin still dominates the city today. Its buildings were constructed in the second half of the 5th century BC. The greatest was the Parthenon, the temple dedicated to the goddess Athena. Sparta, one of the city-states, had military ambitions and a well-trained professional army. Athens and Sparta fought together against Persian attacks ...
... the South Indian temples (those at Chidambaram, Conjeevaram, Madura, Tanjore and Srirangam, for example), the immediate opulence of the Gothic cathedrals and the utter and noble simplicity of the Parthenon, but each style has its own distinctive "form", significant enough in relation to its purpose, and the world of art would be very poor indeed if a single style electronically operated everywhere. ...
... recent secularism, will not in spite of its oriental origin and affinities be of much real help. To bring in into the artistic look on an Indian temple occidental memories or a comparison with Greek Parthenon or Italian church or Duomo or Campanile or even the great Gothic cathedrals of mediaeval France, though these have in them something much nearer to the Indian mentality, is to intrude a fatally foreign ...
... it is tried, it is not quite genuine, for what informs it is no longer the classic spirit; it is too crowded with subtle thought-matter, too brooding, sensitive, responsive to many things; no new Parthenon can be built whether in the white marble subdued to the hand or in the pure and lucid spacings of the idea and the word: the mind of man has become too full, complex, pregnant with subtle and not ...
... one favour. When my sons grow up, gentlemen, it you think that they are putting money or anything else before goodness, take your revenge by plaguing them as I plagued Page 80 The Parthenon (temple of Goddess Athena built on the Acropolis) you; and if they fancy themselves for no reason, you must scold them just as I scolded you, for neglecting the important things and thinking ...
... the late 5th century BC. Right: Athena. This Roman version is the only evidence we have of the sumptuous appearance of the gold and ivory image of Athena made by Phidias for the Parthenon. Page 152 These supporting pillars in female form, the Caryatids, form part of the Erechtheum, a small temple on the Acropolis (see photo pp. 136-37). "Our city is education ...
... assassinated. Pericles replaces him and becomes Commander Page 144 in-chief of Athens. 449 BC — Acropolis is rebuilt and construction of the Parthenon begins. 445 BC — Aristophanes is born. "Thirty Year Peace" is signed between Sparta and Athens. 432 BC — Socrates participates in the battle of Potidaea in ...
... of modern humanity; but they were finished and completed things, net and clear and full of power. The simple unambiguous virile line that we find in Kalidasa or in the Ajanta, in Homer or in the Parthenon, no longer comes out of the hands of a modern artist. Our delight is in the complexity and turbidity of the composition; we are not satisfied with richness only, we require a certain tortuousness ...
... Nineveh, 91 ODIN, 201 Old Testament, the, 214, 244 Olympus, 201, 234 Osiris, 220 PACIFIC, the, 209 Paracelsus, 150 Paris, 373 Parthenon, 136 Patanjali, 315, 319 Pericles, 206-7, 239 Periclean Age, 206 Persia, 240 Pharaohs, the, 239 Phidias, 220 Phoenicia, 219 Pisa, 322 ...
... The Acropolis was the ancient hilltop citadel of Athens, and its ruins still dominates the city today. Its buildings were constructed in the second half of the 5th century B.C. The greatest was the Parthenon, the temple dedicated to the goddess Athena. Sparta, one of the city-states, had military ambitions and a well-trained professional army. Athens and Sparta fought together against Persian attacks ...
... has ever touched this Truth? Of course it has been touched, but on the mental heights, in rare illuminations that left a trace here or there, on a Buddha's face in Indonesia, an Athena in the Parthenon, a smile in Rheims, in some marvelous Upanishads, a few words of grace that have survived as a golden and adorable anachronism, hardly real amidst our concrete structures and civilized savagery; ...
... The Secret Splendour The Parthenon's pillars built to upbear the sky Could keep not even an earthly roof; and all That colour kindled for the Eternal's eye In deep Ajanta fades; no rhythms recall The two grand plays the terrible chisel-stroke Of the titan mind of Aeschylus set beside Prometheus Bound : their power Time's brute hand ...
... hope was at its highest - during the career of Sri Aurobindo, the Supramental Avatar. The sonnet appears on page 38 of Altar and Flame. Here it is: Heaven's Light and Mortal Doom The Parthenon's pillars built to upbear the sky Could keep not even an earthly roof; and all That colour kindled for the Eternal's eye In deep Ajanta fades; no rhythms recall The two grand plays ...
... 590 The nameless dust is aureoled by his mood 411 The noon of night: twelve sounds linger and cease... 38 The other side of the moon. 597 The Parthenon's pillars built to upbear the sky 395 The sage has seen love blind because 390 The sea, one quivering grey, 610 The solitude before the world was made— 614 ...
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