{"id":1432,"date":"2011-10-26T08:29:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T12:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2011-10-27T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:34:56","slug":"six-quotes-kleiner-on-the-acropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/10\/26\/six-quotes-kleiner-on-the-acropolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quotes: Kleiner on the Acropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. \u201cWhen you go into the Acropolis, why are all the great buildings off to the left? In the archaic day there was the greatest temple erected right before you. This was the temple the Persians burned down and which prompted Pericles and the Athenians to rebuild.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cDespite the agony on the centaur\u2019s face, the whole sculpture has a grace and refinement to it. It reminds me of the movements of a Spanish matador and the restrained skill he possesses.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cNo expense was too great to build the Acropolis. In fact the temple itself was not the most expensive part but rather the forty-foot statute of Athena made of gold that was housed.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. \u201cNever before has a sculpture attempted to mimic real space, to depict the effects of weather and the environment upon an inanimate marble form.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cTo make the building more perfect instead of being perfect, they had to add a slight curvature to the structure so that the human eye perceived perfection.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cHow in the world did they pay for all this? Rising ambitions of Pericles made him transfer the wealth of the Delian League to the coffers of Athens where he used the surplus funds to build the Parthenon. Believe me, no one was too happy with the Athenians because of this.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As recorded by Core office employee Winona Hudak during Prof. Fred Kleiner’s discussion of the Athenian Acropolis\u2019s during this week\u2019s CC101 lecture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cWhen you go into the Acropolis, why are all the great buildings off to the left? In the archaic day there was the greatest temple erected right before you. This was the temple the Persians burned down and which prompted Pericles and the Athenians to rebuild.\u201d \u201cDespite the agony on the centaur\u2019s face, the whole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3860],"tags":[6949,616,48727,3689,2470,6948,194,6683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}