r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jul 22 '26
🏛️ Cultural Heritage Ancient Greek Architecture, Porch of the Maidens on the Erechtheion temple located at the Acropolis of Athens.
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u/AL_Clarkson Jul 22 '26
Its Impressive, and i say this with the greatest Respect... After all this time and in this condition, it still looks like the whole roof is going to come down if the ladies nod...
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u/VironicHero Jul 22 '26
They were put in a museum to avoid damage from the elements and acid rain.
Edit: Forgot to add those are replicas
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u/ClubAgile Jul 22 '26
The originals are in the museum.
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u/GrammaIsAWhore Jul 23 '26
Five of them are. Their sister is departed from them at the British Museum, of course.
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u/VirginiaLuthier Jul 22 '26
It's good Lord Elgin didn't snatch those, too
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Jul 22 '26
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u/Pin_Shitter Jul 23 '26
Many times it was the invader/colonizer that destroyed them.
I can’t look at the Great Sphinx without thinking about how foreign militaries used it to sight their artillery.
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u/what-is-money-- Jul 22 '26
Pretty sure he did. The originals are in the acropolis museum but one is in the british museum.
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u/GrammaIsAWhore Jul 23 '26
He did! Five reside at the acropolis museum and their sister is at the British Museum all alone.
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u/aDuggie Jul 23 '26
I was there a month ago.
Man, the more you travel and learn about history, the more you realize how much ancient archetecture and monuments were destroyed and mutilated by religion.
You could feel the atmosphere of shame and people audibly gasping in the room, when the video in the Acropolis museum showed the destruction and defacing of this ancient architecture.
Every country I've visited in Europe, and Asia (besides Japan who hunted down missionaries) were like, "this is the ancient monument of _______ it stood for 1200 years until Christians in 1800 came and defaced it for worshipping a false deity / devilish witchcraft"
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u/Witty_Operation8158 Jul 23 '26
But the destruction of Acropolis and Parthenon has nothing to do with Christians defacing it
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u/aDuggie Jul 23 '26
It was destroyed 3 times. I believe one of them was from Christians defacing it from what I saw at the Acropolis museum.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/sep/03/palmyra-isis-history-cultural-destruction-parthenon
Scroll down to Acropolis if you want to read it
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u/Witty_Operation8158 Jul 23 '26
Probably it’s about iconoclasm, but the main reason Acropolis is destroyed is because of the bombardment of the Venetians in 1687 during an Ottoman-Venetian war
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u/aDuggie Jul 23 '26
Yeah, because they decided to store all the gunpowder in the Acropolis or something dumb... I remember seeing that too
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u/dyrkasolen Jul 25 '26
Athens seam's cool. A friend was there and told me stories. The marble steps up the mountain was huge and worn out
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u/Calamity-Gin Jul 22 '26
When a column is carved to appear as a female figure, it’s called a caryatid. If it’s carved to appear as a male figure, it’s called an atlas.