Tagged: Parthenon

Analects of the Core #161

October 28, 2011 at 9:34 am

In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner’s lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week’s analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon. The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. – Henry David Thoreau

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Analects of the Core #160

October 27, 2011 at 9:59 am

In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner’s lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week’s analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem among her zone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Analects of the Core #159

October 26, 2011 at 12:33 pm

In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner’s lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week’s analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon. Mighty indeed are the marks and monuments we have left. Men of the future will wonder at us, as all men do today. – Pericles

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Analects of the Core #159

October 26, 2011 at 7:48 am

In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner’s lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week’s analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon. Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I [...]

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Analects of the Core #158

October 25, 2011 at 11:18 am

In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner’s lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week’s analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon. There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek [...]

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Analects of the Core #157

October 24, 2011 at 10:08 am

In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner’s lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week’s analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon. You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute [...]

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