Word: erechtheum
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With this permission the artists proceeded to take, down the sculptures, the most important of which were those of the Parthenon. Architectural specimens were also taken from the Propylaea, Nike Apteros, and Erechtheum. Between two and three hundred more were engaged several months in remov-these marbles from the Acropolis and lower city, so that when Lord Elgin stopped at Athens on his return to England be found two hundred cases ready for shipment. Some of them were lost by shipwreck in the Mediterranean and it was not until 1812 that all were safely landed in England. At first these...
...said that he would reserve until the close of the lecture the translation of Pausanias' description of the temple, which, though written in the author's usual rambling style, constitutes an important contribution to our knowledge of the temple. It is not satisfactorily known what the name Erechtheum' does signify, but the temple was devoted to the worship of Athena. The ancient wooden statue of the godess was preserved there, and the temple was often called that of Athena Polias. The temple may have lost some of its importance when the Parthenon was built. and the great chryselephantine statue...
...original Erechtheum was burnt by the Persians; but the new temple was erected on the ancient site. It is a later structure than the Parthenon. The ground plan of the temple was unique, differing from every other known example of a Greek temple. Instead of the usual oblong figure with a portico at each end, the Erechtheum had projecting porticoes on the north and south sides, and a portico at only one end, the eastern one. On the southern side is the Porch of the Maidens, one of the best known specimens of Greek architecture. The skill displayed here...
...sculptures of the frieze of the Erechtheum were worked from separate blocks of marble, which were afterwards fastened upon the frieze. This frieze was of blue-black Elusinian marble, and must have thrown the sculptures into remarkable relief. Very few of the figures of the frieze have been preserved; not enough to enable us to determine the subject of the sculptor, so Dr. Wheeler did not discuss them...
...lecture was closed with a few remarks about the later history of the Erechtheum, and the Acropolis as we see it today...