Homework: Week
beginning 8th December 2014
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12th December.
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Literacy
Please continue learning the words for our Christmas carol performance.
Science
Choose an animal and research their life cycle. Draw a labelled diagram
to demonstrate their life cycle to present to the class. Try to include
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The Ancient Greeks made huge achievements in terms of their
architecture. Can you find three examples and describe their features? You
might like to sketch these.
The Colesseum:
ReplyDeleteHas 24,000 seats.
Has 89,000 elements.
Has 900,000 bricks.
The Pathenon:
Has 0 seats
Has 30,000 elements.
Has 45,000 bricks.
Temple Of Hera:
Has 2 seats.
Has 10,000 elements.
Has 110 bricks.
The Amphitheatres
ReplyDeleteAncient Greek theatres were built in a semicircle, with tiered seating above a performance area. Ancient Roman amphitheatres were oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium. Modern usage for "amphitheater" is lax, and does not always respect the ancient usage, and so the word can be found describing theatre-style stages with the audience only on one side, theatres in the round, and stadiums. Natural formations shaped like man-made theatres are sometimes known as natural amphitheatres. The three largest Roman amphitheatres (in the original sense) in the world in order of size are the Colosseum, the Amphitheatre Campania and the Amphitheatre of El Djem.
Sounion
Cape Sounion is noted as the site of ruins of an ancient Greek temple of Poseidon, the god of the sea in classical mythology. The remains are perched on the headland, surrounded on three sides by the sea. The ruins bear the deeply engraved name of English Romantic poet Lord Byron (1788–1824).
The site is a popular day-excursion for tourists from Athens, with sunset over the Aegean Sea, as viewed from the ruins, a sought-after spectacle.
Ethusus
The city was famed for the Temple of Artemis (completed around 550 BC), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In 268 AD, the Temple was destroyed or damaged in a raid by the Goths.[7] It may have been rebuilt or repaired but this is uncertain, as its later history is not clear.[8] Emperor Constantine I rebuilt much of the city and erected new public baths. Following the Edict of Thessalonica from emperor Theodosius I, what remained of the temple was destroyed in 401 AD by a mob led by St. John Chrysostom.[9] The town was partially destroyed by an earthquake in 614 AD. The city's importance as a commercial center declined as the harbor was slowly silted up by the Cayster River (Küçük Menderes).
ANCIENT GREEK HUGE ACHIEVEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
ReplyDeleteArchitecture is the art of designing and creating buildings. Greek architecture is a very specific and influential type of design, which was based off of the post-and-lintel system. The post-and-lintel system is made up of columns, which are large upright posts, with a roof, or architrave, over the top. This type of architecture began with the Greeks, but has persisted throughout the ages to live on today.
Even though it may seem simple, the Greeks created a wonderful and lasting legacy of architecture. The columns and architraves were carved with leaves and flowers, scenes of battles, and mythological creatures. The columns were decorated with lines and bases, and capitals, which topped off the columns and connected them to the architraves.
Greek buildings were all built in a very methodical order. This means that there were many rules that they followed in order to make sure the buildings were all similar. These rules also helped to make sure that the buildings were safe and strong. Many Greek buildings were built so well that hundreds of them still exist today, even though they are thousands of years old!
The rules that Greeks used to build their buildings were precise, and said how wide the columns could be, how tall the columns could be, and how many columns a building needed. Eventually these rules became known as orders, and different types of orders developed, with different styles of architecture.
There were many different type of Greek architecture buildings which were very famous. Some of them are listed below.
1. Elgin Marbles
The ‘Elgin Marbles’ is a popular term that in its widest use may refer to the collection of stone objects – sculptures, inscriptions and architectural features – acquired by Lord Elgin during his time as ambassador to the Ottoman court of the Sultan in Istanbul. More specifically, and more usually, it is used to refer to those sculptures, inscriptions and architectural features that he acquired in Athens between 1801 and 1805. These objects were purchased by the British Parliament from Lord Elgin in 1816 and presented by Parliament to the British Museum.
2. Parthenon
In Greek architecture Greeks took good care in designing temple. The most impressive building was Parthenon.
The Parthenon was built in Athens in the date 400BC.The Parthenon has 46 columns. This temple was built for the Goddess of Wisdom And War , for example Athena. The buildings in Greece had to be perfect.
The columns would bulge in the middle. The Greeks architecture were perfectly straight.
There were different types of styles: Doric, Lonic, and Corinthinan.
Doric= Is Sturdy , Used in mainland Greece
Lonic= Thinner and much more elegant, decorated with scroll like design
Corinthinian= decorated with acanthus leaves
Greeks created their own stadiums and theatres.
3. Erechtheion
While the Parthenon was the most impressive temple on the Acropolis, another building, the Erechtheion was built to accommodate the religious rituals that the old temple housed. Construction of the Erechtheion began in 420 while the Peloponnesian war was interrupted by the Peace of Nikias and continued through some of the most difficult times for the Athenians at war. During this time the Athenians suffered a devastating defeat at Syracuse, saw their empire unravel through consecutive revolts, had their cherished democracy replaced by a brief oligarchy, and endured major defeat. The Erechtheion construction was concluded in 406 BCE, and soon thereafter, in 403 BCE Athens fell to the Spartans.
WoW Vansh that is a lot of work!!!!!!!
DeleteThe Ionic order is more decorative than the Doric. The columns are the taller and thiner, and the capitals at the top of the amazing columns are decorated with the scrolls and other patterns. The bases of the columns are also decorated. The Corinthain order is a lot like the Ionic order, the capitals are even more elaboratelly decorated,usually with leaves and floral patterns. The Doric order is the most oldest and the most simple order. The columns have no base and have a very simple capital. In other words,Doric buildings were very least decorated. Archaeologists believe that Doric architectural buildings,with were built in stone,evolved from wooden buildings that are very similar.
ReplyDeleteThe Temple of Athena Nike was built in the city of Athens. There were two sets of columns inside the temple. The columns surrounded a small chamber that engulfed the Statue of Apollo. This architecture was loved very much.
ReplyDeleteThe Temple of Olympia Zeus in Athens has three columns remaining. The construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants. It would not take long until you would be able to tell how big this temple was.
The Erechtheum is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens. The temple was built between 421 and 407 BC. The temple is most famous for its unique porch and it is classical Greek architecture.
Ancient Greeks Huge Achievements (Architecture)
ReplyDeleteThe Architecture of Ancient Greece is the architecture produced by the Greek speaking people.
Ancient Greek architecture is best known from its temples, many of which are found throughout the region, mostly as ruins but many substantially intact.
The second important type of building that survives all over the Hellenic world is the open - air theatre, with the earliest dating from around 350 BC.
Ancient Greek architecture is distinguished by its highly formalised characteristics, both of structure and decoration.
The formal vocabulary of Ancient Greek architecture, in particular he division of architectural style into three defined orders:the Doric order, the ionic order and the Corinthian order was to have profound effects on western architecture of later period.
In addition to temple, the Greeks also built of other kinds of structure. Their public spaces include monumental tombs :agoras or public meeting places :stoas or colonnaded shelters :stadiums and many more.
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Parthanon
ReplyDeleteThe ancient Greeks were very good architects, they had invented three types of columns, the first one is the Doric column, the second one is Ionic and the last one is the Corinthian column. These types of columns were used all over Greece in public buildings. The Parthenon is a temple for Athena (the gods of war). It was built on an acropolis in Athens.
Taormina
Taormina was a Greek colony on the east coast of the island of Sicily, the theatre there was built by the Greeks in the second century B.C. It commands a fantastic view of all the beautiful places in the vicinity: Etna, the bay of Naxos, castlemola, and the crystal-clear Mediterranean.
Erechtheum
The Erechtheum is an ancient Greek temple of Ionic style on the northern side of the acropolis of Athens. The temple was built between 421 B.C and 402 BC .the temple is probably most famous for its distinctive porch supported by six female figures known as the caryatids.
The Erechtheum is the seventh famous temple.