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The Gate of Athena Archegetis, Roman Agora of Athens, Greece
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. - Edgar Allan Poe
why are m and n so similar in sound and shape. theres no other pair of letters like that
I wish I could like… download languages into my brain.
Finally im seeing questions with the exact amount of niche absurdity that i want
Temple of Nemesis
Rhamnous, Attica, Greek
5th century BCE
Peripteral Doric
The sanctuary of Nemesis lies on the road between Rhamnous and Marathon, around 630m south of the later city. Two temples to Nemesis and Themis can be seen at the site situated very close together.
Nemesis, also called Rhamnousia or Rhamnusia (“the goddess of Rhamnous”, her most important in ancient Greece), is the goddess who enacts retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the gods)
Construction of the temple to Nemesis began around 460-450 BCE and continued until 430–420. It was built as a Doric peripteral temple during the reign of Pericles when the Parthenon was built in Athens, and on a platform with a massive polygonal terrace wall. It is believed that it was designed by the architect Callicrates who designed the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, the Poseidon Temple at Cape Sounion and the Ares temple in Acharnes.
The euthynteria and lowest level of the crepidoma were made from local dark marble, while the rest was constructed of white marble.
The Peloponnesian War must have interrupted the completion from 431 BCE and carving of the column flutes was not done and the stylobate blocks were left unfinished, retaining the protective excess marble on their easily damaged corners and upper surfaces. There were no pedimental sculptures, nor were the metopes decorated with sculpture. The roof was decorated with sculptural acroteria, however.
Unfinished fluting and carving on the 5th century BCE temple.
At some point after the original construction, the Temple of Nemesis was severely damaged at its eastern end and the upper courses were subsequently repaired with new blocks. The damage to this and other temples in the region and the destruction of monuments in Athens is thought to be caused by the armies of Philip V of Macedon during his raids in 200 BCE. The blocks which were used to repair the Temple of Nemesis are distinct from the original blocks and the tooling is quite different which suggests that the repairs were made in the Roman period, when interest in the old Classical temples was renewed. The central block of the architrave on the east end of the temple bears an inscription of rededication to the goddess Livia by the Demos, which may be associated with the repairs. This reconstruction must have been costly since it involved replacing the east end, which required making duplicate blocks for the frieze, geison, perhaps the tympanon, the raking geison, the akroteria, and perhaps part of the sima, rooftiles, and ceiling coffers. Unlike other temples in Attica which had fallen into disrepair, the Temple of Nemesis was not stripped of useful parts or removed whole to Athens. Instead, it was restored with pride as an important local monument.
Statue of Nemesis
The cella of the large temple housed the cult figure of Nemesis, sculpted by Agorakritos, a pupil of Phidias, from the block of Parian marble alleged to have been brought by the overconfident Persians for their triumphal stele. This famous statue of the goddess stood within the cella of the temple and was around 4m high. The Roman historian and connoisseur Varro rated it the finest example of Greek sculpture.
The badly damaged remains of an over life-size marble head from a cult statue of Nemesis, with perforations for attaching a gold crown, was discovered by the British architect John Gandy in the early nineteenth century and is now part of the British Museum’s collection. This has a stylistic similarity to the pediment sculptures of the Parthenon of 440-432 BCE.
Many parts of the original statue have been recovered and reconstructed from the hundreds of fragments found scattered about after the destruction of the cult image by early Christians, and this allowed the identification of a total of eleven Roman copies on a smaller scale. The base of the statue, approximately 90 cm high and 240 cm wide, has also been reconstructed; on three sides of the base, the nearly-in-the-round scene shows the presentation of Helen to her mother Nemesis by Leda.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
it is exactly what it says on the tin ……. this is a gift to all yall who missed my wonderful tech wife in the start of s4
this is what actually happened in canon at some point and you can’t convince me otherwise
[speedpaint]
hey guys :)) did you know :)) the last thing jacobi ever says to maxwell :)) is “let’s go be monsters” :))))))
if you’re like me you’re going to be crying about jacobi and maxwell’s friendship until the end of time so here’s a compilation of some of their best friendship moments
There is no yesterday What’s done is done I won’t run It’s okay now But if you’re there Hear my prayer Any day now Any day now Any day now Any day now
a new concept: idiot academia
where u have book smarts but have absolutely no common sense
MAKE ME CHOOSE:
anonymous asked-> Will Herondale or Tessa Gray
There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
CHARLES E. XAVIER in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
@creatorsofcolornet event 11 ~ romance ↳ RAHUL AND ANJALI in KABHI KHUSHI KABHIE GHAM (2021)
“Apne halwai ki dukaan…toh mai hadapke hi rahunga”
@pscentral mini event: get to know the member → favorite movie
Back to the Future (1985) dir. Robert Zemeckis
Maddy Perez in Euphoria 2x06 | “A Thousand Little Trees of Blood”
ashes to ashes, dust to dust
@paletmblr event viii: scenery
blue scenery in eternals
Alexa Demie as Maddy Perez
Euphoria | 2x04 "You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can"
I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.
BOOKS READ IN 2022: The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang
@librarysource mission 02: page to screen — pride and prejudice by jane austen
“you are too generous to trifle with me. if your feelings are still what they were last april, tell me so at once. my affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.”
@librarysource’s mission 2: page to screen: a book being made into a tv show
percy jackson and the olympians by rick riordan
look, i didn't want to be a half-blood.