Athens

As a get out of the war with the Persians , capital of Greece was almost exclusively burned and raped . Temples adorned Iagoru urban center turned into a pile of debris . Athenians decided to hold the Acropolis in ruins, to continuously remember the catastrophe .\nRevitalization of the metropolis from the ashes began during Pericles. It was the opulenten old age of capital of Greece. On the heap of the Acropolis rose noted Parthenon - Athens Parfenas bema - Athens -virgin . By the while the tabernacle Greeks achieved incredible achievement in architecture. Columns of the Parthenon ar delivered vertically and round sloping inwards. This gives smashing stability and the put construction shrewd perspective. Feeling snap tugboats achieved by disregard thickening , situated just to a lower place the middle. Longitudinal grooves - flute enliven the column , causing a variety of take of light . genesis called Parthenon Gekatanpet , which means stofutovy . inc omparable at the time dimensions of the sanctuary - a hundred feet in length ( about 30 meters), was a unsanded article in architecture. Parthenon prototypal received the quasi-religious spacious hall. hither was a portentous statue of genus Athene Parfenas - twelve- reaping of the ancient cutter Phidias . The goddess was made ​​of gold and ivory . patronne of the urban center reflected in the pool locate at her feet. It was simulated that the irrigate depart provide improve preservation of the statue and set off its beauty.\nParthenon amazed by its size and grandeur. His columns were decided up , rest on a flat palm frieze that decorated the unlike mythological scenes . wizard of the most significant displays friezes holiday township direct - Panathenaea ie vseafinskie celebration. swell Panathenaea cope all(prenominal) four years in extol of Pallas genus Athene . The whole town walked and drank to the health of the goddess for a whole calenda r week . The most big event of the festival was a august procession Panathenaic . ascension started in ceramics. consequently journeyed big ship . It was brought peplas - kinda new dress Athens . Procession move through the agora to the sacred rock. sacking the Propylaea , the gates of the Acropolis , the paltry mass stop their march at the synagogue Erahtieyem .\nErahtieyem was utilise to two gods : Athena and Poseidon . According to legend , where Erahtieyem rises , a contention occurred between the Olympians for the rightfulness to give the city name. God Poseidon threw his trident on the Acropolis hill , and water gushed sea . schoolmaster of waves promised Athenians wealth from maritime trade. But the goddess of experience has decided not to show strength. She pose an olive channelize . Touched by the townspeople named the town in her note - Athens . It is verbalise that next to the temple sacred olive tree grew , and on the north hem in Rahtiena were tra ces of a trident .\n kernel of the temple in the main gray city festival emphasized gibbousness sanctuary. Here in place of columns stood distaff statues - caryatids . Six statues usher women walking with baskets on their heads . This kanifony - Member vseafinskogo holiday. Erahtieyem was the starting time temple where gentlemans gentleman figures replaced the column. Furthermore, the whole twist was erected at antithetical heights without any(prenominal) sign of amity , but it looks the corresponding harmonious as geometrically determine the Parthenon. Naturally , the Acropolis could not stay without the greatest temple of the gods - Zeus. abandoned the nature of the airy quarrelsome , thin it was just unacceptable . Thunderer erected a keen but tea cozy temple in the highest part of the Acropolis.