. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . Rearing Horse from the ParthenonFrieze. ATHENS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY 161. Ruins of the Parthenon at Athens. of Athens, and used the building as a storehouse for powder was ignited by a cannonball and blew thecentral portion of the building into fragments. Yet theruins tell us volumes of that remarkable sense of correctproportion which characterized the Greek idea of beauty. Begun soon after 450 b. c, the Parthenon was completedabout 437 b. is of the Doricorder, 101 feetwide by 227 feetlong, surroundedby great co
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . Rearing Horse from the ParthenonFrieze. ATHENS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY 161. Ruins of the Parthenon at Athens. of Athens, and used the building as a storehouse for powder was ignited by a cannonball and blew thecentral portion of the building into fragments. Yet theruins tell us volumes of that remarkable sense of correctproportion which characterized the Greek idea of beauty. Begun soon after 450 b. c, the Parthenon was completedabout 437 b. is of the Doricorder, 101 feetwide by 227 feetlong, surroundedby great columnsover six feet indiameter at thebase. Its deco-ration, the mak-ing of the pedi-ment figures and the great frieze which ran round theouter wall of the temple house, was all under the guidanceof the great Athenian sculptor Phidias. The subject ofthe frieze is the procession of Athenians carrying gifts tothe goddess Athena at the great Pan-Athenian festival,which occurred once in four years. This frieze is one of themost interesting remains of Greek art that we have. Itcontains over 350 figures of men and women and over 125of horses,
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