The Periclean Acropolis

Rhodes, Robin F.

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“…Consistent with the style of the exterior, these were carved in a muscular, Doric style, and represented the triumphs of the Athenians over their regional rivals, and those of their gods over animal passions and chaotic chthonic forces. Here already, on the Doric exterior, the Greeks and their achievements are being placed cosmopolitically almost on a par with those of the gods that they worshipped (Tiverios, 1982; Rhodes, 2016). However, as one passed into the shadowy interior, but before entering the sacred space of the cella , one would have seen overhead the brightly painted frieze, which was sculpted in the Ionic style, more subtle and complex in its presentation of humans, gods and the relations between them (Mark, 1984).…”

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The Anthropocene monument

Szerszynski

2017

European Journal of Social Theory

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In the Parthenon frieze, the time of mortals and the time of gods seem to merge. Dipesh Chakrabarty has argued that with the advent of the Anthropocene the times of human history and of the Earth are similarly coming together. Are humans entering the 'monumental time' of the Earth, to stand alongside the Olympian gods of the other geological forces? In this paper I first look at the cultural shifts leading to the modern idea of separate human and Earth histories. I examine the changing use of monuments to mediate between human and other temporalities. I explore the use of 'stratigraphic sections' as natural monuments to mark transitions between the major time units of Earth history, and the erection of intentional monuments nearby. I suggest that the Anthropocene, as a geological epoch-in-the-making, may challenge the whole system of monumental semiotics used to stabilise our way of thinking about deep time.

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The Anthropocene monument

Szerszynski

2017

European Journal of Social Theory

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The Periclean Acropolis

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