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Name: ______________________________
Date:__________________________
Period: ______________
Ch. 5 Greece Notes on:
Athens
Athens was the Greek leader in _____________, literature, and
___________________. Its aim was to ______________ ________________.
Athens had a great asset, which was _____________ _____________,
which yielded enough to pay for great expenses- such as their buildings,
and they had a fleet.
The Acropolis stands as a shining citadel of an ideal.
Intellectual and spiritual ___________________are the roots of this idealfreedom of inquiry and freedom of human sympathy.
As you climb the ____________ to the acropolis you first enter into the
massive __________________ . Today only four of the buildings remain:
The Parthenon, the Erechtheum, the Propylaea (or the entrance gates)
and the tiny __________________ of Athena Nike.
The Parthenon built in ___________ BC belonged to every Athenian was
sacred to Athena, the city’s virgin goddess of wisdom. No one has ever
discovered the system of measurements that will exactly fit the
Parthenon. It is known as the “geometry in _____________________”. All
its long straight lines were bent a bit, to bring them into harmony with
the round eye of man.
Inside the Parthenon stood the statue of _______________, sculpted by
Phidias, she stood _______ feet high and dominated the Parthenon’s hall.
It was made out of ___________ and _____________ over a wooden core. It
was thought to have been destroyed some time in the fifth Century AD.
The Parthenon was damaged in ____________ when the Ottoman Turks
shot ___________________ ball up into the Acropolis.
The Erechtheum, is an irregular Ionic _____________with its southern
porch upheld by six columns shaped in the likeness of lovely
___________________. These statues have been replaced and the original
ladies are now in one of the museums.
Today Athens is a city of around _____________ Million people. You
have numerous sites to see when you visit it with all the
______________________ and ruins. At the bottom of the acropolis is the
Plaka a ___________________ and eating area. Athens is quite smoggy
from the cars as well as all the ships that are coming in and out of the
__________________ Piraeus. This harbor has been used for thousands
of years.