Humanities 110
October 27, 1999
William Diebold
The Parthenon
 

Monuments

Parthenon, on the Acropolis, Athens, built 447-432 B.C.
Agora, Athens
Kroisos (Anavyssos kouros): c. 530 B.C.; found at Anavyssos (Attica); probably carved in Athens (Athens, National Museum)
 

Terms

Acropolis (Greek, "high city")
triglyph (Greek, "three cuttings")
metope
Oath of Plataia (479)
Peace of Kallias (c. 450)
Delian League
Pheidias
pediment
 

Further Reading

Acropolis Restoration: The CCAM Interventions. Ed. R. Economakis. London, 1994.
Boardman, John. The Parthenon and its Sculptures. Austin, 1985.
Castriota, David. Myth, Ethos, and Actuality. Official Art in Fifth-Century B.C. Athens. Madison, 1992.
Connelly, Joan B. "Parthenon and Parthenoi: A Mythological Interpretation of the Parthenon Frieze."
American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996), 53-80.
Hitchens, Christopher. The Elgin Marbles. Should they be returned to Greece? New York, 1998.
Neils, Jennifer. Goddess and Polis. The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens. Hanover, 1992.
The Parthenon and its Impact in Modern Times. Ed. P. Tournikiotis. New York, 1996.
Rhodes, Robin Francis. Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis. Cambridge, 1995.
Wilson, Benjamin Franklin III. The Parthenon of Pericles and its Reproduction in America. Nashville, 1937.
Worshipping Athena. Panathenaia and Parthenon. Edited by Jennifer Neils. Madison, 1996.