The Parthenon is amazing!

It's like Disneyland. They clean it up every night.

And it survived being blown up by my fellow countryfolk!

http://www.debevec.org/Parthenon/TheParthenon-WideView-Med-sharp.jpg

Look at me! I am the most perfect Doric temple ever!

(Look at me! I'm an attention temple!)

(OTM! Look:)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/10/17/acropolis460.jpg

http://www.wearsideonline.com/images/Penshaw-monument.jpg

Hello, Dad!

See, that looks like crap to me!

It's mostly cowdung on that hill.

Not everything called Parthenon rules, unfortunately.

http://scifipedia.scifi.com/images/e/ec/Parthenon01.jpg

where do you get tights like that?

xpost OTM. Can't forget:

http://www.crawfords.com.au/libary/sitcom/images/acropolis_pic.jpg

wheres effie?

the one in Nashville is better:

http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/13ace5e5-49ca-403e-8739-591780d13bb2.jpg

hell, everything in Nashville is better...

Sunny, you probably weren't seriously asking, but in case you were: here - and they link to here - but be aware that they look quite ridiculous (search for "eye-catching" on that page)

The friezes and marbles were painted originally, I think. Would we think of it the same way if they still were?

I doubt it - this looks very cartoony :-/

Haha YES that is like the biggest joke of the Classical world, the original garishness of EVERYTHING. Not for them the tonal simplicity that we find so pure and classic.

TS: parthenon vs pantheon

Yeah, it bemuses me that we so often have Classical art rong. But I reckon the Parthenon wd be even more awesome in living colour.

ILX c. 5th century BC "oh wtf they're tearing down my local to put up another fucking temple"
"like the fucking acropolis needs more of those. RIP Cimon's"

"and Aeschylus shoulda stopped after 'Seven Against Thebes,' 'The Oresteia' was total jumptheshark time"

http://www.mainstreetannarbor.org/storefronts/116_t.jpg

It is pretty funny to think the U.S. Capital was deliberately made drab due to a misunderstanding of classical structures.

I visited the Acropolis in 1998. Me and my travel companion got our tickets and then went to the bathroom to change into togas and stick some laurel in our hair.

We got arrested and kicked out. They let us back in once we changed.

i was almost in a bar fight at springwater

I played at Springwater once. yay

Hahahahah kate, my four friends and I took the sheets off our beds the last night at our hotel and wore them to breakfast with laurel sprigs behind our ears. The staff at least pretended to be amused and didn't fine us or anything...but then we didn't try to leave the building, either.

how do you just come across laurel sprigs?

also, I knew a guy who thought the phrase "resting on one's laurels" was "resting on one's lorries"

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000B7QCKO.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://ci.yp.ca/1008737820060830124529_i.jpg

I visited the Acropolis in 1973 (on my 8th birthday nonetheless!). Not much of it was fenced off then, and it was a blast running around the place.

Talking of spring water, bottles of the stuff cost like 20 euros at the Acropolis. Blimming rip-off merchants.

Emily, there are lots of bay laurel trees in Greece! I'm sure we stripped some tree bare. Stupid tourists.

xpost I paid $8 for a coke at Trevi Fountain in 1997. I knew I was being ripped off but I dont know how to argue in Italian.

Oh and thanks StanM. I was serious BTW.

Oh. In that case they don't look ridiculous :-)

xpost I paid $8 for a coke at Trevi Fountain in 1997. I knew I was being ripped off but I dont know how to argue in Italian.

At the Trevi fountain, I saw a woman throw a giant magnet into the water, reel it in, wrap the coin-covered magnet in newspaper, and run off!

so now that greece has built a modern, climate-controlled museum at the acropolis, will england give the elgin marbles back? hmmm?

while Frank sang "Three coins OUTTA DA Fountain..."

The story about the Greeks de-listing as historically interesting Vangelis' house, so they can demolish it to provide a better view of the Acropolis from the restaurant of the new museum is totally WTF.

so now that greece has built a modern, climate-controlled museum at the acropolis, will england give the elgin marbles back? hmmm?

How about they take Prince Philip instead?

The British aren't budging on that. Their argument seems to be against having the marbles together in one location at all, as a general application of this ideal would "empty the world's great museums." I.e., museums are more important than art, or history?