Parthenon sculptures were coloured blue, red and green

To: AnAmericanMother

21 posted on 02/26/2006 8:02:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)

Would be a shame if true: The Greeks didn't really realize that white was the classic look.

22 posted on 02/26/2006 9:38:39 PM PST by wildbill

To: AnAmericanMother

23 posted on 02/27/2006 4:53:40 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)

To: Charles Henrickson

24 posted on 02/27/2006 5:45:40 AM PST by Savage Beast (9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President Bush and his surveillance program.)

To: FreedomCalls

That's a Nikh or Victory (they named the tennis shoes after her, not the other way around). The incarnation of Athena on the Parthenon is Aqena Nikh - Athena of Victory.

25 posted on 02/27/2006 6:12:40 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))

To: Charles Henrickson

LOL!

. . . that took some looking, btw. The Greeks haven't used glyphs since Phaistos . . . and the Minoans probably weren't Greek anyhow --

26 posted on 02/27/2006 6:16:38 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))

To: NCC-1701; AnAmericanMother; Sam Cree

A late-comer to this thread; suffering with the flu.

So if the Nashville copy is a complete restoration, why aren't the areas behind the metopes (those little sculptures on the entablature) painted the bright colors I've heard about?

Like An American Mother, I, too, have heard that the ancient temples were painted, although I had not seen such a bright example as the Peplos Kore she posted earlier. I keep forgetting exactly what the colors used were: green, red, and blue, but where they were on the Parthenon I can't remember. That's why I'd like to see the Nashville "copy" with the "real" colors. (Actually, I have to confess I do like the "white" classical ideal better...it's less garish than the reconstructions.)

I liked the story of the marble chips being scattered. Typical. Far better to have the tourists get those chips than chip off the originals.

Now...if we can only get the Parthenon taken to London to save it from further acid rain decay. Think Lord Elgin can be revived? :)

27 posted on 02/27/2006 9:06:14 AM PST by Republicanprofessor

To: Republicanprofessor

Hear, hear!

Go ahead and replace all the caryatides with concrete copies, and get the originals to London where they can be preserved properly in a climate-controlled environment . . .

. . . looks around to see if cat is firmly ensconced among pigeons . . .

28 posted on 02/27/2006 9:08:27 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))

To: Republicanprofessor

I thought it was the figures and not the backgrounds that tended to be painted . . .

29 posted on 02/27/2006 9:09:08 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))

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