The Parthenon

What order is the parthenon

Doric

Materials it was made of

Marble
Limestone foundation

Ionic features of the parthenon

A continuous frieze behind the outer colonnade

Ionic columns in the treasury

Who were he architects of the parthenon

Iktinos and Kilkrates

Who commissioned the Parthenon

Pericles

Who sculpted Athena

Pheidias

What is on the western pediment

The contest for the naming of Athens

What is on the eastern pediment

The birth of Athena

Depiction on the internal Ionic Frieze

Panathenaia festival

North Doric frieze

Sacking of Troy

East Doric frieze

Giganomachy

South Doric Frieze

Centaurnomachy

West Doric frieze

Amazonomachy

The East chamber

23 columns

Statue of Athena

Second floor to see Athena from all sides

The West chamber

Gold treasury

4 ionic columns

A statue made of gold and ivory

chryselephantine

Front enterance

Pronaos

Back enterance

Opisthodomos

Palladian

The olivewood statue of Athena said to be sent from the heavens

Peripteral temple

A temple where the cella is surrounded by a collonade

Entasis

The method used to introduce a curve while right angles appear to be conserved

Why entasis was needed

It was built on a curved surface

Civic importance

West chamber was a treasury

Represented wealth after Delian league

Artistic importance

Panathanaia festival

Depictions of order triumphing over chaos (anti-Persian)

Features of the statues

Naturalistic

Showed emotions

Foreshadowing

Polychrome

Thin flowing clothes - body can be seen under clothes

Important features

Crepidoma

Stereobate

Stylobate

Entablature

Pedaments

Normal plan

L = 2w + 1

Number of metopes

92

Number of collumns at the pronaos

6

Number of columns at the opisthodomos

6

Number of columns running along the length

17

Number of columns running along the width

8