Talk:Erechtheion/Archive 1

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The prior temple of athena polias, erechthus,poseidon,hephaistos and the boutes burned just prior to the persian sack of greece in 480bc. it was altered to function before and after the invasion .the statue, known by some as agalma (not manmade-fell from heaven) or as xoanon (,manmade, it was removed to salamis during the persian invasion.

after the invasion, Pericles devised a new plan for the acropolis, with the propylea aimed no longer at aphrodite's mountain, lykabettos, but toward the horns of hymettos, where the altar to athena faced, and which allowed upon exit the focused view of the very waters of salamis in which the greeks defeated the persian navy in 479bc. the parthenon was completed in super scale, then the propylea, theand the nike temple at the entrance.

at this point Pericles died, athens suffered a terrible plague and worh on the erechtheion didnt proceed for over a generation of the war with the spartans

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I think Template:Infobox monument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_monument) is better than Template:Infobox building (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_building) which had been used here. Gre regiment (talk) 00:00, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

About reference #17
For reference number 17 about the destruction of The Erechtheion, the reference source says that "during the Greek War of Independence the building was bombarded and severely damaged" I don't understand how this was paraphrased into "it was bombarded by the Ottomans". This information is not accurate. The Ottomans had 400 years to destruct anything they wanted but that was not the case. They rather showed their power play by repurposing existing structures. That is why for instance the Acropolis was converted into a mosque. We need more historical evidence to understand the fabric of culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.255.108.20 (talk) 07:55, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * The archived version was more or less unreadable because of missing CSS, so I replaced it with a proper cite of the thesis at the official university repository. Lhmathies (talk) 10:40, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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New theory on function of the building
According to a new theory published in the 2020 issue of the American Journal of Archaeology, the building known today as the Erechtheion was in antiquity called the Old Temple of Athena, and its west part with the Karyatid porch was a treasury called the Parthenon (Virgin Room). Previous scholars assumed that the treasury called the Parthenon was located in the smaller west room of the building that is today known as the Parthenon. The author locates the true Erechtheion in the adjacent Dörpfeld foundations.
 * I am not sure how much of that is new -- the 2004 dissertation by Alexandra Lesk, cited in the Architecture section as "other current thinking," takes it as uncontroversial that the building was built partly to house the cult of Athena Polias whose statue was used moved there when an older temple became unservicable. By a cursory reading, the Dörpfield foundations may be identified with various ancient precincts but are partly under the building currently called the Erechtheion -- so can't have been the Erechtheion that Pausanias saw. Somebody who knows the subject and has read both authors is needed. Lhmathies (talk) 12:45, 6 January 2020 (UTC)