Comments on: The Acropolis

By: navyGOLF

navyGOLF — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:16:40 +0000

I had a chance to visit a miniature version of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee and the replica would have been majestic enough what more if you can actually see the ruins of the real thingâ€¦ nice pictures MM!!! Thanks for sharing. Greece will now be on my top destinations to visit in my lifetime next to Holy Land and Morocco.

By: thelma

thelma — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:43:25 +0000

i love history and archeology. i truly enjoy your pictures and the info…

By: quiapo

quiapo — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:18:17 +0000

It has been 35 years since I have been to the Parthenon, and I am sure you are right, the columns swell towards the middle.
I do remember buying a souvenir from one of the stalls on the way to the Parthenon, and the vendor correctly idetifying me as Filipino. He prided himself on his ability fo pick customers’ nationality, and told me he was able to support his 2 children’s schooling in Switzerland from the proceeds of his humble stall.
It is amazing that you can appreciate and have the same sense of wonder 35 years after I did, and no doubt, even my great, great grandchildre will be able to stand in the same spot and experice what I have done. Magi places like the Parthenon link us all through space and time, whereever we come from, from whatever era.

By: Naz

Naz — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:00:25 +0000

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By: shalimar

shalimar — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:06:46 +0000

My Sunday walk is always around the Acropolis I never get bored seeing this great wonder….

By: shalimar

shalimar — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:05:22 +0000

I have been to the British Museum and saw the Elgin marbles god damn they should return them …

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:03:04 +0000

Apicio, you make me smile, and a post on statues in the days ahead will reveal why. As for the columns, yes, they are slightly thicker in the middle. The Elgin marbles are still heavily sought after. And while the Ottomans stocked the gunpowder, I think it was the Venetians who attacked them and as a result, blew the roof off the Acropolis in the 1600’s?…

By: Apicio

Apicio — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:46:34 +0000

Sets my teeth on edge whenever I reread that this shrine to chryselephantine Athena (quite imposing even in its ruined state) was where the Ottomans chose to stash gunpowder. The English of course were prescient enough to have picked up the scattered pieces (of its frieze) and shipped them away to become one of the charms of the British Museum, the Elgin marbles. Present day Greeks have been trying to repatriate them for some time now. I wonder if they are also trying to retrieve the Aphrodite of Melos from the French who actually snatched them right from the mouth of a kiln that converted them to masonry lime or my absolute favorite, in an obscure stairwell in another part of the Louvre, the colossal pinkish winged Victory, the goddess Nike from the island of Samothrace.

Quiapo, the columns actually gently swell around the middle, a technique of optical adjustment (somebody suggested, not me) they must have borrowed from the fashioning of their anatomically faithful phallic monuments.

By: quiapo

quiapo — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:14:58 +0000

The columns were constructed to be wider at the top than at the bottom so that the optical illusion of receding at the top would be less pronounced.