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The Acropolis and the Parthenon - for iPod/iPhone
by The Open University
The Acropolis is one of the most famous ancient sites in the world. Rising over the city of Athens 150 metres above sea level, it consists of several significant archaeological remains of temples dedicated to various deities, and civic buildings. This album offers a chance to tour the Acropolis and examine its many buildings, including its best preserved temple, the Parthenon, along with its friezes, known as the Elgin Marbles. Also, the album follows the route of the procession that took place during the Panathenaea festival which rivalled the Olympic Games in popularity, and contains a track to help the student understand the conventions used to draw up plans of ancient buildings and to visualise 3-dimensional structures. This material forms part of The Open University course A219 Exploring the Classical World.
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The Acropolis & the Parthenon
An introduction to this album’s contents.
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The Panathenaia and the Panathenaic way
How the archaeological remains of ancient Athens reveal much about civic life.
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The Acropolis
Exploring the Acropolis in the footsteps of ancient Athenians.
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The Parthenon
Exploring the functions of the largest building on the Acropolis
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The Parthenon -pediments and metopes
Looking at the surviving pieces from the Parthenon’s pediments now in the British Museum, and seeing how they would have looked originally.
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The Parthenon frieze
A chance to see one of the most famous remains of ancient Greece, in the British Museum.
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Plan drawings
Introducing vital skills for understanding a drawing of a temple plan.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Acropolis is one of the most famous ancient sites in the world. Rising over the city of Athens 150 metres above sea level, it consists of several significant archaeological remains of temples dedicated to various deities, and civic buildings. This album offers a chance to tour the Acropolis and examine its many buildings, including its best preserved temple, the Parthenon, along with its friezes, known as the Elgin Marbles. Also, the album follows the route of the procession that took place during the Panathenaea festival which rivalled the Olympic Games in popularity, and contains a track to help the student understand the conventions used to draw up plans of ancient buildings and to visualise 3-dimensional structures. This material forms part of The Open University course A219 Exploring the Classical World.
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