THE ACROPOLIS IN THE AGE OF PERICLES 1ST EDITION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Jeffrey M Hurwit | --- | --- | --- | 9780521527408 | --- | --- The Acropolis in the age of Pericles in SearchWorks catalog The Propylaia-- 6. The Erechtheion the classical temple of Athena Polias -- 7. The sanctuary of Athena Nike-- 8. The rest of the program-- 9. Conclusion: the Periclean Acropolis as a whole. It focuses specifically on the development of the Acropolis in the fifth century BC and the building program initiated by Pericles. Placing the century-long development within its historical and cultural contexts, Jeffrey Hurwit explores the physical nature of the Acropolis itself, the character of the goddess Athena, and how the building program exploits and reveals the Acropolis's own venerable history. He also offers an interpretation of the thematic unity that links the many structures of the Periclean Acropolis. Incorporating the latest discoveries and research on individual monuments of the Acropolis, this edition is illustrated with halftones as well as a CD-ROM including colour images of the monuments of the Acropolis. Akropolis Athen. Bibliographic information. Publication date Note Abridged, rev. Related Work Hurwit, Jeffrey M. ISBN pb. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended. This item may be a floor model or store return that has been used. See details for description of any imperfections. Skip to main content. About this product. Stock photo. Pre-owned: Lowest price The lowest- priced item that has been used or worn previously. I never list any of my books as "brand new" unless they come in their original box. Unread, "like new" is my top condition. All flaws I see will be noted here. Appears unread, but has glue or something similar covering the spine, giving it an unsightly appearance. Also inside both covers is foxing where they attach to the spine. See pictures No surprises. The book has the CD inside the back cover that appears to never been removed. A very good reading copy. But then the Peloponnesian War broke out in It lasted for 27 years. Pericles, along with many others, died of an undetermined plague during the war. The plague was especially deadly because people were crowded together within the walls of Athens, Greece, for strategic reasons connected with the war. Share Flipboard Email. Ancient History and Latin Expert. Gill is a Latinist, writer, and teacher of ancient history and Latin. Updated October 23, ThoughtCo uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. Pericles - Restoring Athens’s preeminence | Britannica Pericles also got married and had 2 sons. His wife's name is unknown. He associated with a courtesan named Aspasia. A decade later the people started to like him more and more. He got involved with the politics called Ephialtes. Pericles and Ephialtes took away the noble's powers. Ephialtes was later assassinated. Pericles promoted the arts and literature. This was a chief reason Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural centre of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that built most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis including the Parthenon. This project made the city more beautiful. Furthermore, Pericles fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist. Anaxagoras and Pericles by Augustin-Louis Belle — An ostracon with Pericles' name written on it c. A painting by Hector Leroux — , which portrays Pericles and Aspasia, admiring the gigantic statue of Athena in Phidias' studio. Pericles facts for kids Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Even in the short time since Hurwit finished his earlier manuscript in , much new material has appeared, and he takes full advantage of the opportunity to update the earlier work. Here as elsewhere, Hurwit takes complicated ideas and makes them accessible. Hurwit shows the reader why the remnants of such pre-Periklean structures as the Bronze Age Cyclopean wall and the sixth-century Temple of Athena Polias were so significant to fifth-century planners. Although the what-stood-where controversies of the Archaic Acropolis are not a focus here, Hurwit points out the ongoing new discoveries, spearheaded by Manolis Korres, which suggest that the Periklean Parthenon on the south side did indeed have a worthy ancestor in the so-called Bluebeard Temple as many had suspected. The biggest contribution of this chapter — the most heavily reworked of the new volume — lies in the theme of memory and commemoration, alluded to in Hurwit but explored to a greater extent here. In this, Hurwit taps into an approach used to good effect by Carla Antonaccio, Susan Alcock, and others, an approach well suited for the Acropolis. However, one should note — and Hurwit does — that we do not always know how or whether fifth-century Acropolis monuments fit into either of these classifications. For Hurwit there is unity and cross-fertilization among the various structures, which he demonstrates in the chapters that follow. The bulk of the book concentrates on the monuments themselves. But their inclusion here is important for giving the reader a sense of the totality of the fifth-century Acropolis, that it was not just about the four Big Buildings which dominate art history books and the modern landscape. As for those Big Buildings, their coverage is largely that found in Hurwit , with some updating based on recent discoveries and recent scholarship. Thus Hurwit confronts the question of the relationship between the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Polias pp. Hurwit himself continues to read the frieze as generic — in the sense of not referring to a specific mythological or historical occasion — and as an evocation of a whole host of Athenian religious festivals, not exclusively the Panathenaia. This idea is shared for example by J. A Google online search reveals that Hurwit has become a staple in course syllabi, with the High Classical sections frequently assigned on their own. Instructors will therefore welcome the new volume, as will students; it nicely complements, for example, J. As with Hurwit , the accessible and clear language with just enough wit, appreciated by this reviewer , thorough explanation of background and concepts, and copious illustrations render the new book suitable for advanced student reading. Shaded text boxes make primary sources such as Pausanias, Plutarch, and the Parthenon inventory lists readily available. Happily Cambridge University Press has issued an affordable paperback edition which will further encourage adoption as a textbook. Following a trend of many publishers these days, the new volume is supplemented by a CD-Rom, this one more useful than many. Technology-savvy professors will find the CD-Rom a boon in the classroom, and students too will appreciate the fine color images, helpfully keyed to appropriate places in the text. The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles does not replace Hurwit , nor does it try. For complete discussion of earlier and later periods, the previous work is of course essential. Hurwit has also opted to leave out of the new book some of the material on religious festivals and the daily life of the Acropolis found in chapter 3 of Hurwit , and the lengthy analysis of the myth of Pandora on the Athena Parthenos, found in its chapter Pericles Facts for Kids - History for kids Pericles also got married and had 2 sons. His wife's name is unknown. He associated with a courtesan named Aspasia. A decade later the people started to like him more and more. He got involved with the politics called Ephialtes. Pericles and Ephialtes took away the noble's powers. Ephialtes was later assassinated. Pericles promoted the arts and literature. This was a chief reason Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural centre of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that built most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis including the Parthenon. This project made the city more beautiful. Furthermore, Pericles fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist. Anaxagoras and Pericles by Augustin-Louis Belle — An ostracon with Pericles' name written on it c. A painting by Hector Leroux — , which portrays Pericles and Aspasia, admiring the gigantic statue of Athena in Phidias' studio. Pericles facts for kids Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Because of a recent citizenship law, Pericles couldn't marry a woman who wasn't born in Athens, so he could only cohabit with Aspasia. Pericles introduced payment for public offices in Athens. Pericles initiated the building of the Acropolis structures. The Acropolis was the high point of the city, the original fortifiable area before the city of Athens expanded. Ictinus and Callicrates served as architects for the Parthenon. Pericles is credited with moving the treasury of the Delian League to Athens, Greece, and using its money to rebuild the Acropolis temples that the Persians had destroyed. This was an abuse of the treasury funds. Besides Pericles, Herodotus the father of history and his successor, Thucydides, and the 3 famous Greek dramatists Aeschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides lived during this period. There were also renowned philosophers like Democritus during this period, as well as sophists. Drama and philosophy flourished. But then the Peloponnesian War broke out in It lasted for 27 years. Pericles, along with many others, died of an undetermined plague during the war. The plague was especially deadly because people were crowded together within the walls of Athens, Greece, for strategic reasons connected with the war. The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles Paperback with CD-ROM by Jeffrey M. Hurwit University of California Press, Millett, Paul. Moore, J. Neils, Jenifer. Princeton University Press, Osborne, Robin. Edited by P. Oxford University Press, Translated by H. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edith Hall.