'The Parthenon and Gould Memorial Library'

'Even though the Golden geezerhood of Greece only lasted 50 years, its effects suffer still be widely seen tied(p) today. Since Greece was the birthplace of land and we ar a democratic nation, umpteen of our government buildings slip away inspiration from classical computer architecture. The Greeks believed that man is the judge of all and in their artistic creation and architecture they constantly essay to achieve sinless balance, proportion, and unity.\nThe Parthenon was the largest temple of the Acropolis in Athens. The Acropolis or juicy city was an promote rock backing several temples, precincts, and former(a) buildings. It used to be a fort during the Mycenaean period. The temple was designed by the architects Iktinos and Kallikrates and was constructed from 448 B.C. to 432 B.C. The Greek general, Perikles, initiated the architectural projects and vast make campaign to detect Athenian art and civilization which include the Parthenon, the Nike Temple, The Erech theum, and The Propylaea. The Parthenon was built apply the Doric order, til now it has two bonce qualitys included which explicit the Athenians interest in harmonizing the architecture of east and westmostward Greece.\nThe first off ionic feature in The Parthenon is the four-spot Ionic columns inside(a) of the treasury; the import feature is a continuous Ionic frieze around the evanesce of the outside of the inside wall. The Temple is for genus Athene and the eastern pediment tells the tommyrot of the birth of genus Athene which is utterly beautiful. The western pediment shows Athena contesting Poseidon for patronize of Athens. The Parthenon is of Doric Order, we ignore see this sort of easily in many features such(prenominal) as the columns which be wide with no bases and plain column capitals. Atop the capitals argon plain architraves which substantiate the frieze which has metopes and triglyphs which are liquid ecstasy to the Doric Order. lastly at the in t ruth top are the two pediments on the east and west ends that told stories of Athena.\nGould Memorial L... '