Film -- Secrets of the Parthenon
Dr. Sizonenko
Week 1 Homework Assignment.
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While watching the film, Secrets of the Parthenon, please answer the following questions and bring this worksheet to submit at our next class meeting.
1. The ancient Athenians took only
years to build the Parthenon.
2. A 40-foot-high statue of Athena Parthenos, made out of
and gold was in it.
3. The Acropolis Restoration Project wants to million dollars.
the Parthenon. It cost over $ 100
4. A column consists of 11 drums. They have to support 100 tons of structure. There are 46 columns. Each column is
5. There is a curve in the middle of the stylobate which is about
centimeters high.
6. Each of the columns leans means that each piece only fits in ONE place.
Many architectural elements are curved. This
7. In the early 1900s a restoration team put in iron marble. These have to be taken out. It is a 20,000 ton puzzle.
that destroyed the
8. Only 30 years before Athens lay in ruins. Then they paid into a military defense fund. Pericles ushers in the Golden Age of Greece. was born.
9. About 40,000 male citizens were allowed to vote. In 449 BC, Pericles proposes to rebuild the temple destroyed by the The people of Athens vote to rebuild the Acropolis.
10. The Parthenon would be the largest building in the world made entirely from
11. On the island of Naxos, the temple of Demeter also has few straight lines. To compensate the illusory in the middle of the stylobate, the builders constructed a curved line.
12. The Athenians brought the marble in from a quarry only Quarrymen extracted 100,000 tons of marble from Pentelikon.
miles from the site.
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Film -- Secrets of the Parthenon
Dr. Sizonenko
13. Expenses were recorded can identify 200 different stone masons.
This was a requirement. Professor Korres
14. There was one standard of converting table for the different measuring systems.
The Salamis stone is a
15. All three measurements are found in the Parthenon: It is 45 doric feet high, but also 48 common feet and 50 ionic feet. They use a body to create measuring devices.
16. Marcus Vitruvius studied architecture in the 1st century BC. He mirrors the proportions of an human body: the ratio of the distance from finger to finger to the height of the person is 1.6.
17. This was already discovered by Pythagoras, who lived 100 years before the Parthenon was built. It is called the Often times a ratio of 4:9 is found. Protagoras said: "Man is the measure of all things."
18. How did the ancient Greeks make "Entasis"? They would have to set their compass at about to create the curvature.
19. They used a template to scale down the height by a factor of 16. The was not scaled down. We can see this method clearly in the temple of Didyma, which remained unfinished. The lines are still there.
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