In this episode, we discuss the construction, the history, and the significance of the main buildings on the Athenian Acropolis (the Parthenon, The Propylaia, The Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, and a few others); together, these buildings mark the high point of the glorification of Athens, and the Acropolis thus became a confident assertion of Athens’ cultural leadership of Greece, a bold endorsement of her self-image, and a dazzling instrument of political propaganda, with the result that many people later would consider the Athenian Acropolis to be the symbol of the Greek legacy and the glories of Classical Greece
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2017/12/065-athenian-acropolis.html
***Special Guest Episode on Classical Monsters and Popular Culture w/Liz Gloyn***
097 The Road to Peace
096 Athens on the Offensive
095 The Greek World Turned Upside Down
***Special Guest Episode on Being a Modern Homeric Bard w/Joe Goodkin***
***Special Guest Episode on Translating Thucydides’ Speeches w/Johanna Hanink***
094 New Leaders and New Strategies
093 Revolt in the Empire
092 The End of an Era (Part II)
091 Attrition and Plague
090 The Road to War
***Special Guest Episode on Ten Caesars w/Barry Strauss***
***Special Guest Episode at MFA Boston w/Phoebe Segal***
089 The Breakdown of Peace
088 Thucydides and Periclean Politics
087 Rhetoric and the Sophists
***Special Guest Episode on Drinking and 'Sportsing' w/Amy Pistone***
086 Early Astronomy
085 Mathematics and Early Pythagoreans
084 Pluralists and Other Physiologoi
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