Percicles And The Parthenon Flashcards
What happened to Athena with the Persians and when ?( abit obscure but is good to know)
Persians sacked Athens and burned the city to the ground in 480BC
What did the Athenian defeat of Persia cause ?
The formation of the Delian league with Athens at the head of it
Who was Perciles and what did Pericles do ?
He was the leading politician and moved the treasury of the Delian league from Delos to Athens
What did Athens do to rebuild ?
Spent vast quantities of the money from the treasury to pay for an extensive and remarkable building program to decorate the city again
What was the big part of this rebuilding programme ?
The Acropolis’s which already was a sanctuary to Athena
A complex of buildings was constructed on the Acropolis to honor Athena
What did Pericles hope to do ?
Turn Athens into the architectural centre of the known world with the Parthenon at the centre of it
Where did the location of the treasury move to ?
The opisodimos of the Parthenon
Who was the lead architect of the Parthenon ? What was he In charge of ?
Phidias
- the general design and sculpture including the statue to Athena in the Naos
Who where the other two architects aside from Phidias ?
iktinos and Kallikrates
