4 options
The Acropolis in the age of Pericles / Jeffrey M. Hurwit.
Van Pelt Library DF287.A2 H87 2004 1 v. + CD-ROM
Available
Fine Arts Library DF287.A2 H87 2004 1 v. + 1 CD-ROM
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hurwit, Jeffrey M., 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monuments--Conservation and restoration.
- Acropolis (Athens, Greece).
- Athens (Greece)--Antiquities.
- Athens (Greece).
- Acropolis (Atina, Yunanistan).
- Atina (Yunanistan)--Eski eserler.
- Greece--Athens.
- Greece--Athens--Acropolis.
- Monuments--Conservation and restoration--Greece--Athens.
- Monuments.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Athens.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Antiquities.
- Architecture, Greek--Greece--Athens.
- Acropolis (Athens, Greece)--History.
- Acropolis (Athens, Greece)--Antiquities.
- Local Subjects:
- Acropolis (Atina, Yunanistan).
- Atina (Yunanistan)--Eski eserler.
- Genre:
- CD-ROM.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- System Details:
- System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/Windows 2000 or MAC OS 8.6; 128 MB RAM; 550 Mhz Pentium II or G3 Processor; 800x600 Screen Resolution; 16-bit color quality; 16x CD-ROM Drive; Recommended System: Microsoft Windows XP or MAC OSX+ 256 MB+ RAM 1 Ghz+ Pentium IV or G5 Processor 800x600+ Screen Resolution 32-bit color quality 24x CD-ROM Drive.
- text file
- Summary:
- Focusing on the development of the acropolis of Athens in the 5th century B.C., Jeffrey Hurwit examines the building programme initiated by Pericles & the contexts in which this development continued for a century. The CD-ROM contains 180 colour images of the monuments of the acropolis.
- Contents:
- The rock and the goddess
- Landscape of memory: the past on the classical Acropolis
- Pericles, Athens, and the building program
- The Parthenon
- The Propylaia
- The Erechtheion: the classical Temple of Athena Polias
- The sanctuary of Athena Nike
- The rest of the program
- The Periclean Acropolis as a whole.
- Notes:
- Abridged, rev., updated, and reorganized version of the author's The Athenian Acropolis: history, mythology, and archaeology from the Neolitihic era to the present, published in 1999.
- On CD-ROM: Images by Jeffrey M. Hurwit ; CD-ROM by Adam D. Newton.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521820405
- 9780521820400
- 0521527406
- 9780521527408
- OCLC:
- 53360769
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.