Tagged: Parthenon

“Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”

October 19, 2020 at 12:10 pm

This week, as CC 101 students turn their focus towards the Parthenon, classical architecture has also been getting some attention from President Trump. The Guardian reports that earlier this year, the Trump administration drafted an executive order calling for a return to a classical style in new federal buildings. The draft order, entitled “Make Federal […]

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From the American Library Association: Parthenon Made Out of Banned Literature

November 10, 2016 at 9:05 am

Documenta 14 is a series of art exhibitions, hosted every five years to commemorate the values of democracy and freedom of expression–hard-won, but too easily taken for granted. Behind the exhibit is Marta Minujin, who sought inspiration for the exhibit from one of her earlier works. In 1983, after the dissolution of dictatorship in Argentina, […]

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Analects of the Core: Thoreau on walls built of ruins

October 28, 2011 at 9:34 am

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: Emerson on the Parthenon as a gem

October 27, 2011 at 9:59 am

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem among her zone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Analects of the Core: Pericles on mighty monuments

October 26, 2011 at 12:33 pm

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: Hawthorne on the burden of the past

October 26, 2011 at 7:48 am

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 wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were […]

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Analects of the Core: Emerson on manners and early Greek art

October 25, 2011 at 11:18 am

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 art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Analects of the Core: Mercouri on the Parthenon Marbles

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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