The Present and Forward Fate of the Elgin Marbles The Parthenon marbles are works of art taken from the Acropolis of Athens by Lord Elgin and brought to England while Greece was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.. Lord Elgin received permission from the Sultan to remove the statues at a price less than what it takes to transport them. Money was not the main motive for Elgin in acquiring them‚ there were wealthy bidders who attempted to buy them from him but he refused. Once in England many
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What it is: • the deposition of acidic components in rain‚ snow‚ dew‚ or dry particles. • more accurate term is "acid precipitation." • defined as any type of precipitation with a pH that is unusually low The Causes: • occurs when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are emitted into the atmosphere‚ undergo chemical transformations and are absorbed by water droplets in clouds • then fall to earth as rain‚ snow‚ mist‚ dry dust‚ hail‚ or sleet. • Dissolved carbon dioxide dissociates to form weak
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The Theater of Dionysus The Theater of Dionysus was Europe ’s first theater‚ and stood immediately below the Parthenon in Athens‚ Greece. It was originally built in the late 5th century B.C. The theater was an outdoor auditorium in the shape of a great semicircle on the slope of the Acropolis‚ with rows of seats on which about eighteen thousand spectators could comfortably seat. The front rows consisted of marble chairs‚ and were the only seats in the theater that had a back support. The priests
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crust is composed of calcium carbonate. It is a major component in limestone‚ marble‚ seashells‚ bedrock‚ etc. Limestone and marble have been among the most widely used building materials for more than 5 000 years‚ from the pyramids in Egypt to the Parthenon in Greece and the Taj Mahal in India. In many places‚ limestone is also the foundation of our Earth—literally‚ since it is forms both bedrock and mountain ranges. Calcium carbonate dissolves in water to only a limited extent‚ but its solubility is
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CLCV 1009B Introduction to Archaeology Archaeology Film Assignment This Assignment is due on Friday 31 January 2014. This assignment will give you a chance to look through Carleton’s collection of films about Archaeology. During the course we may be able to watch a film or two in class but there are many good films covering various aspects of Archaeology and individual sites around the world. We cannot watch them all. This assignment will give you a chance to choose one that is of particular
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You don’t see this kind of craftsmanship because now a day it’s all made in China. Phidias had even made an another statue of the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy‚ Athena for the Parthenon in Athens Greece. While America made a cheap knockoff in Nashville Tennessee that one was made to made it look like the one in Ancient Greece just in one piece‚ instead of in ruins. Not much is known about the sculptor Phidias being that this was
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Han China Tourist Journal Last year I had quite an adventure. I wanted to visit Han China but I couldn’t because the Han Dynasty was overthrown nearly 2000 years ago‚ in the year 220 CE. My solution was to build a time machine. I would tell you how I built it‚ but I won’t since you might use it to kill your grandfather and mess up reality. Anyways‚ I went back to the year 100 BCE during the reign of Han Wudi. I went back to this year because under Han Wudi the Han dynasty reached its peak‚ and
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position in the Greek city-state. The Athenian democracy‚ traditionally held in high esteem in many other ways‚ was a democracy of the minority. Women‚ foreigners and slaves had no influence or true civil rights. They lived in the shadow of the Parthenon and the Acropolis. Sarah B. Pomeroy’s influential monograph‚ Goddesses‚ Whores‚ Wives‚ and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity (1976) paints a dark picture. Men held a monopoly on politics and influence in the public sphere‚ and women lived in
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Beauty Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) His students painted and he put the final touches Lisa la Gioconda—his neighbor’s wife Not attractive‚ shy Da Vinci hires a six piece orchestra to play for her—she started opening up Mona Lisa is a composite of 6-7 women Had an affair with da Vinci Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) She is nude Owned by the French King Leo flees there He dies in France The perfect Italian Ren. Woman Leo put his self portrait in Lisa Mary Magdalene (Donatello) Beautiful
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Drive down the congested coast highway‚ past the Santa Monica Pier. Take a right at Chautauqua Boulevard and for the first time you are finally driving at the speed limit uphill on a winding bourgeois road. Walk to the end of an unsuspecting alleyway‚ past all the gated post-modern mansions that seem to each exist in their own worlds behind lines of lush green foliage and stark white concrete walls. At the end of the road is The Eames House‚ Case Study House #8—the archetypal symbol of post-modernism
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