The Acropolis and the Parthenon - for iPod/iPhone
By The Open University
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Description
The Acropolis is one of the most famous ancient sites in the world. Rising over the city of Athens 150 metres above sea level, it consists of several significant archaeological remains of temples dedicated to various deities, and civic buildings. This album offers a chance to tour the Acropolis and examine its many buildings, including its best preserved temple, the Parthenon, along with its friezes, known as the Elgin Marbles. Also, the album follows the route of the procession that took place during the Panathenaea festival which rivalled the Olympic Games in popularity, and contains a track to help the student understand the conventions used to draw up plans of ancient buildings and to visualise 3-dimensional structures. This material forms part of The Open University course A219 Exploring the Classical World.
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The Acropolis & the Parthenon | An introduction to this album’s contents. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Acropolis & the Parthenon | Transcript -- An introduction to this album’s contents. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoThe Panathenaia and the Panathenaic way | How the archaeological remains of ancient Athens reveal much about civic life. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Panathenaia and the Panathenaic way | Transcript -- How the archaeological remains of ancient Athens reveal much about civic life. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoThe Acropolis | Exploring the Acropolis in the footsteps of ancient Athenians. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Acropolis | Transcript -- Exploring the Acropolis in the footsteps of ancient Athenians. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoThe Parthenon | Exploring the functions of the largest building on the Acropolis | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Parthenon | Transcript -- Exploring the functions of the largest building on the Acropolis | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoThe Parthenon -pediments and metopes | Looking at the surviving pieces from the Parthenon’s pediments now in the British Museum, and seeing how they would have looked originally. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Parthenon -pediments and metopes | Transcript -- Looking at the surviving pieces from the Parthenon’s pediments now in the British Museum, and seeing how they would have looked originally. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe Parthenon frieze | A chance to see one of the most famous remains of ancient Greece, in the British Museum. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Parthenon frieze | Transcript -- A chance to see one of the most famous remains of ancient Greece, in the British Museum. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoPlan drawings | Introducing vital skills for understanding a drawing of a temple plan. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Plan drawings | Transcript -- Introducing vital skills for understanding a drawing of a temple plan. | 10/6/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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