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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.