Podcasts by The Acropolis and the Parthenon - for iPad/Mac/PC
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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Transcript -- The Acropolis & the Parthenon from 2009-10-07T02:11:53
An introduction to this album’s contents.
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The Panathenaia and the Panathenaic way from 2009-10-07T02:10:54
How the archaeological remains of ancient Athens reveal much about civic life.
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Transcript -- The Panathenaia and the Panathenaic way from 2009-10-07T02:10:53
How the archaeological remains of ancient Athens reveal much about civic life.
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The Acropolis from 2009-10-07T02:09:54
Exploring the Acropolis in the footsteps of ancient Athenians.
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Transcript -- The Acropolis from 2009-10-07T02:09:53
Exploring the Acropolis in the footsteps of ancient Athenians.
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The Parthenon from 2009-10-07T02:08:54
Exploring the functions of the largest building on the Acropolis
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Transcript -- The Parthenon from 2009-10-07T02:08:53
Exploring the functions of the largest building on the Acropolis
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The Parthenon -pediments and metopes from 2009-10-07T02:07:54
Looking at the surviving pieces from the Parthenon’s pediments now in the British Museum, and seeing how they would have looked originally.
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Transcript -- The Parthenon -pediments and metopes from 2009-10-07T02:07:53
Looking at the surviving pieces from the Parthenon’s pediments now in the British Museum, and seeing how they would have looked originally.
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The Parthenon frieze from 2009-10-07T02:06:54
A chance to see one of the most famous remains of ancient Greece, in the British Museum.
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Transcript -- The Parthenon frieze from 2009-10-07T02:06:53
A chance to see one of the most famous remains of ancient Greece, in the British Museum.
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Transcript -- Plan drawings from 2009-10-07T02:05:53
Transcript -- Introducing vital skills for understanding a drawing of a temple plan.
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Transcript -- Plan drawings from 2009-10-07T02:05:53
Transcript -- Introducing vital skills for understanding a drawing of a temple plan.
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Transcript -- Plan drawings from 2009-10-07T02:05:53
Introducing vital skills for understanding a drawing of a temple plan.
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