The Akropolis

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-76
Author(s):  
Jessica Paga
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Financial Cost ◽  
Ongoing Controversy ◽  
Building Activity

This chapter focuses on the buildings of the Athenian Akropolis. A brief survey of earlier building activity is provided in order to consider how the Akropolis looked at the time of the Kleisthenic reforms and to highlight some of the problems and controversies in the architectural material. The issue of the “H-Architecture” (the Bluebeard Temple or Hekatompedon) is fully considered, including the ongoing controversy regarding its appearance and location. An account of the Akropolis at the end of the sixth and beginning of the fifth centuries then follows. The chapter closes with two sections that place these buildings within their broader topographical and historical context, including a calculation of the financial cost of the Old Athena Temple and a suggestion for how it might have been funded.

scholarly journals A New Examination of the Arch of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus at Oea

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Meyers
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Building Activity

AbstractThe arch dedicated to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus at Oea was an important component in that town’s building activity. By situating the arch within its socio-historical context and acknowledging the political identity of Oea and nearby towns, this article shows that the arch at Oea far surpassed nearby contemporary arches in style, material, and execution. Further, this article demonstrates that the arch was a key element in Oea’s Roman identity. Finally, the article bridges disciplinary boundaries by bringing together art historical analysis with the concepts of euergetism, Roman civic status, and inter-city rivalry in the Roman Empire.

Buildings and Democracy

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-272
Author(s):  
Jessica Paga
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Archaic Period ◽  
The State ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
Building Activity ◽  
Financial Expenditure ◽  
High Level ◽  
Building Program

This final chapter addresses the links between the built environment as outlined in the previous chapters and the historical context of the early democracy. In total, as many as forty-five monumental structures were built in a twenty-eight-year period. This represents an incredibly high level of coordination, exploitation of resources, and financial expenditure that Athens had not seen prior to this. This chapter, therefore, draws attention to the economic ramifications of such building activity, before turning to a consideration of the term “building program” and what it implies about demotic agency. The chapter concludes by evaluating what the building activity tells us about the state of the new government system in the Late Archaic period.

Psychology as a Profession and a Science

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ype H. Poortinga ◽  
Ingrid Lunt
Keyword(s):  
European Association ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Professional Psychologists

The European Association of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA) was created in 1981 as the European Association of Professional Psychologists’ Associations (EFPPA). We show that Shakespeare’s dictum “What’s in a name?” does not apply here and that the loss of the “first P” (the adjectival “professional”) was resisted for almost two decades and experienced by many as a serious loss. We recount some of the deliberations preceding the change and place these in a broader historical context by drawing parallels with similar developments elsewhere. Much of the argument will refer to an underlying controversy between psychology as a science and the practice of psychology, a controversy that is stronger than in most other sciences, but nevertheless needs to be resolved.

Historical Context for Psychology, Moral Context for Historians

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 990-991
Author(s):  
Isaac Prilleltensky
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Moral Context
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