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The Parthenon had 46 outer columns and 23 inner columns in total, each column having 20 flutes. (A flute is the concave shaft carved into the column form.) The roof was covered with large overlapping marble tiles known as imbrices and tegulae. [65] [66] The Parthenon is regarded as the finest example of Greek architecture.
Annotated sectional view of the Parthenon with parts in the British Museum shaded. The statues are the largest pediment statues made in classical Greece and they are almost all in one piece. [1] In addition, they were sculpted in the round. [1] [3] [8] [9] [10] The same care was accorded to the front and the back, though the latter is hidden.
The Pantheon (UK: / ˈpænθiən /, US: /- ɒn /; [ 1 ] Latin: Pantheum, [ nb 1 ] from Greek ΠάνθειονPantheion, " [temple] of all the gods") is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy. It was built on the site of an earlier ...
The god Apollo is featured on the western pediment pointing towards the human side in the Centauromachy, indicating his favor, and towards the northern side of the temple. [10] Pausanias reports in his Description of Greece (5.10.8) that the Eastern pedimental sculpture was created by Paeonius and the Western sculpture was carved by Alcamenes. [11]
Jesus (/ ˈ dʒ iː z ə s /) is a masculine given name derived from Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς; Iesus in Classical Latin) the Ancient Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua (ישוע). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As its roots lie in the name Isho in Aramaic and Yeshua in Hebrew, it is etymologically related to another biblical name, Joshua .
Metope south XXVII, Centaur and Lapith, British Museum. The metopes of the Parthenon are the surviving set of what were originally 92 square carved plaques of Pentelic marble originally located above the columns of the Parthenon peristyle on the Acropolis of Athens. If they were made by several artists, the master builder was certainly Phidias.
The Parthenon frieze is the high-relief Pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon 's naos. It was sculpted between c. 443 and 437 BC, [1] most likely under the direction of Phidias. Of the 160 meters (524 ft) of the original frieze, 128 meters (420 ft) survives—some 80 percent. [2]
Coordinates: 37.9714°N 23.7263°E. The Church of Our Lady of Athens or Panagia Atheniotissa ( Greek: Παναγία η Αθηνιώτισσα, lit. ' Panagia the Athenian') [1] was a Greek Orthodox basilica adapted from the ruins of the Parthenon sometime in the 6th century CE. During the Frankish occupation of Athens the church became the ...