Word: erechtheum
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...World War II, has pumped so much sulfur dioxide into the air that it is literally melting the Parthenon's marble. In the past ten years, according to Greece's Minister of Culture, Constantine Trypanis, the carved details on the five caryatids of the Erechtheum have seriously degenerated, while the face of the horseman on the Parthenon's west side is all but obliterated. In addition to the pollution damage, frosts and water seepage have cracked some of the stones. Others have been split by a disastrously ignorant restoration of the Parthenon's columns from...
...chorus, a kind of corps de ballet of 14, chants in Greek and uses body English to underscore, but not undercut, the action. In their pleated rust-brown gowns with cowled headdress, the women often resemble the caryatids on the portico of the Acropolis' Erechtheum. The modern Greek rendering of the play has a venomous and vibrant intimacy that the English translation, transmitted at the City Center on transistor earphones, fails to reflect. In a cast that achieves a triumph of ensemble playing, Clytemnestra is coolly reptilian, and Aegisthus is a strutting upstart of self-aggrandizement who yet meets...
...word city hall usually evokes visions of a dingy interior with a minimum of window space and a maximum of official smell behind a façade that may combine the styles of the Taj Mahal, the Erechtheum and Ralph Adams Cram Gothic. But when Fresno (Calif.) citizens planned their city hall they decided to break with U.S. tradition. They decided that a city hall has no need of domes, pillars, Corinthian capitals or musty interiors copied from Roman baths. Last week U.S. architects were hailing the result of Fresno's decision...
...Development of the lonic Order, the Erechtheum," Professor Chase, New Fogg...
...usurper of those jewels, Lord Elgin, was not content with many masterpieces alone, but tore away and transported to England one of the six caryatids and one of the six columns of the eastern portico of the Erechtheum." The writer bitterly asks the British Government to restore these two pieces, adding that he knows it would be useless to claim the heart of the collection...