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FIND THE WORDS ATHENA, ATHENS, CENTENNIAL, COLLECTION, EXPOSITION, CHILDREN’S GUIDE GALLERY, GREECE, LAKES, MEDUSA, MUSEUM, NASHVILLE, NIKE, PAINTINGS, PARTHENON, STATUE, TENNESSEE TO THE PARTHENON THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS Centennial Park Conservancy thanks these generous organizations for underwriting our Kidsville educational program KIDSVILLE AT HOME Learn more and engage your children at home by visiting us online at kidsvilleonline.org HISTORY OF THE PARTHENON PARTHENON WORKOUT CHALLENGE Nashville has the nickname "Athens of the South." Like the Inspired by art created for the 2014 Parthenon exhibit, PARTHENON WORKOUTFlexIt! My Body My Temple ancient city of Athens, Greece, Nashville cares about inspired by art created for 2014 Parthenon exhibit, FlexIt! My Body My Temple education and the arts. To celebrate Tennessee's first 100 years of statehood, Nashville built a copy of the Athenian Parthenon to be the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition's fine arts building. This Parthenon was intended to be a temporary structure, but Nashville loved it so much that the city rebuilt it. The building and the Athena statue are both full-scale copies of push the parthenon like you can move it you are a column tall and proud the parthenon supports you the Athenian originals. step up then step down your arms stretch wide as the Parthenon BY THE NUMBERS: For the Tennessee Centennial Exposition... There are chances to FLEX your muscles all around you… kidsvilleonline.org Tennessee celebrated its 100th birthday by creating 4 lakes, this challenge started at the Parthenon in Centennial Park, 35 big buildings, and displaying 1,175 works of art at the but it can happen anywhere. Parthenon. Over 1.7 million people came to visit the How many places can you find to move your muscles like this? Tennessee Centennial Exposition in only 6 months. Admission price in 1897 was 25 cents for kids, 50 cents for adults, and each ride cost 10 cents. ART GALLERY FACT: In 1927, an art collection was given to the Nashville Parthenon by a secret donor. Three years later, the donor's name was revealed: James M. Cowan! QUESTION: James M. Cowan shared his art collection with Nashville. If you could share your art anywhere in the world, where would you share it?.

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Athenians and Eleusinians in the West Pediment of the Parthenon
ATHENIANS AND ELEUSINIANS IN THE WEST PEDIMENT OF THE PARTHENON (PLATE 95) T HE IDENTIFICATION of the figuresin the west pedimentof the Parthenonhas long been problematic.I The evidencereadily enables us to reconstructthe composition of the pedimentand to identify its central figures.The subsidiaryfigures, however, are rath- er more difficult to interpret. I propose that those on the left side of the pediment may be identifiedas membersof the Athenian royal family, associatedwith the goddessAthena, and those on the right as membersof the Eleusinian royal family, associatedwith the god Posei- don. This alignment reflects the strife of the two gods on a heroic level, by referringto the legendary war between Athens and Eleusis. The recognition of the disjunctionbetween Athenians and Eleusinians and of parallelism and contrastbetween individualsand groups of figures on the pedimentpermits the identificationof each figure. The referenceto Eleusis in the pediment,moreover, indicates the importanceof that city and its majorcult, the Eleu- sinian Mysteries, to the Athenians. The referencereflects the developmentand exploitation of Athenian control of the Mysteries during the Archaic and Classical periods. This new proposalfor the identificationof the subsidiaryfigures of the west pedimentthus has critical I This article has its origins in a paper I wrote in a graduateseminar directedby ProfessorJohn Pollini at The Johns Hopkins University in 1979. I returned to this paper to revise and expand its ideas during 1986/1987, when I held the Jacob Hirsch Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In the summer of 1988, I was given a grant by the Committeeon Research of Tulane University to conduct furtherresearch for the article.
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Parthenon 1 Parthenon
Parthenon 1 Parthenon Parthenon Παρθενών (Greek) The Parthenon Location within Greece Athens central General information Type Greek Temple Architectural style Classical Location Athens, Greece Coordinates 37°58′12.9″N 23°43′20.89″E Current tenants Museum [1] [2] Construction started 447 BC [1] [2] Completed 432 BC Height 13.72 m (45.0 ft) Technical details Size 69.5 by 30.9 m (228 by 101 ft) Other dimensions Cella: 29.8 by 19.2 m (98 by 63 ft) Design and construction Owner Greek government Architect Iktinos, Kallikrates Other designers Phidias (sculptor) The Parthenon (Ancient Greek: Παρθενών) is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron. Its construction began in 447 BC and was completed in 438 BC, although decorations of the Parthenon continued until 432 BC. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of Greek art. The Parthenon is regarded as an Parthenon 2 enduring symbol of Ancient Greece and of Athenian democracy and one of the world's greatest cultural monuments. The Greek Ministry of Culture is currently carrying out a program of selective restoration and reconstruction to ensure the stability of the partially ruined structure.[3] The Parthenon itself replaced an older temple of Athena, which historians call the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, that was destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 BC. Like most Greek temples, the Parthenon was used as a treasury.
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Tine Statue of Athena in the Parthenon
REMARKS UPON THE COLOSSALCHRYSELEPHAN- TINE STATUE OF ATHENA IN THE PARTHENON INTRODUCTION IT is not to be expectedthat even fragmentsof the gold and ivory colossal statue of Athena in the Parthenon should have survived the ravages of time. However, a good deal is known about the statue from small copies in the round and from coins, plaques, gems and the like; also, the famous statue is mentioned by ancient writers, sometimes at considerable length. Consequently we have a fairly good idea of her appearance. And when we come to consider the pedestal on which the statue stood, we find that there are data which can be studied to advantage. Obviously the importance of the statue called for a carefully designed pedestal. Thus it is desirable that all existing data concerning the pedestal be recorded. Let us, then, make a few remarks not only about the colossal statue, but also about the pedestal on which the statue stood. I ATHENA PARTHENOS, THE CLIMAX OF THE PANATHENEA Figure 1 shows the position of the colossal statue (often referred to as the Parthenos) in the east cella of the temple. The blocks which give the position of the statue are toward the west end of the nave and on the axis of the temple. They are poros blocks of the type used for foundations. They are flush with the marble pave- ment of the nave, and they are in situ. The poros blocks, thirty in number, cover an area so extensive that they at once tell us that the statue which stood above them was of colossal size (Figs.
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The Case of the Parthenon Sculptures
University of North Florida UNF Digital Commons All Volumes (2001-2008) The sprO ey Journal of Ideas and Inquiry 2007 Looted Art: The aC se of the Parthenon Sculptures Alison Lindsey Moore University of North Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/ojii_volumes Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Suggested Citation Moore, Alison Lindsey, "Looted Art: The asC e of the Parthenon Sculptures" (2007). All Volumes (2001-2008). 34. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/ojii_volumes/34 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The sprO ey Journal of Ideas and Inquiry at UNF Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Volumes (2001-2008) by an authorized administrator of UNF Digital Commons. For more information, please contact Digital Projects. © 2007 All Rights Reserved LOOTED ART: Art returning to Italy a number of smuggled artifacts, including the famous THE CASE OF THE PARTHENON calyx-krater by Euphronios. The J. Paul SCULPTURES Getty Museum in California also recently attracted attention as Marion True, the Alison Lindsey Moore museum’s former curator of antiquities, was accused of knowingly purchasing Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Candice Carter, looted artifacts. Rather than focusing on a Associate Professor of Curriculum and recent case, I concentrate on the Instruction (Elementary Education) controversy surrounding the so-called “Elgin Marbles.” This research project was intended Many artifacts which comprise private to contextualize both the historical and and museum collections today were possibly current controversial issues pertaining to stolen from their country of origin and illegally the Parthenon. The first section titled “The smuggled into the country in which they now Architectural and Decorative Elements of reside.
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The Parthenon: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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