2. ATHENS
• Athens is the capital and largest city
of Greece
• It is named after its patron goddess Athena
• About 3.5 million people live there
• It is one of the world‘s oldest cities
.
3. ATHENS
- We enjoyed the busy city life,
- We bought T-shirts connected
with the patron and goddes
Athena
- We saw the beautiful views
from the top of the Parthenon
4. • Doric style: Doric style is one of the architectural styles of ancient Greece.
• It has a simple decoration.
• Its origin relates to the tribes of the Doric Greeks.
• The oldest monuments of the Doric style are from the 7th century .
• The most famous buildings from this period are the Parthenon, the temple of Zeus in
Olympia.
TYPES OF ARCHITECTURES STYLES
5. IONIC STYLE
• It can be documented already in the 6th century BC
• The Ionic column is thinner and taller than the Doric column.
• The most famous buildings of this period include the Erechtheion and the Temple of Nike
on the Acropolis.
6. CORINTHIAN:
• Appears around 400 BC. and is characterized by the slenderness, the height of the columns
and the decorativeness of the capitals.
• The most famous building of the Corinthian style is the Lysikrates monument in Athens
7. ACROPOLIS MUSEUM
We visited Acropolis museum and we had a chance to see and learn a lot about Greek history.
• The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the
Acropolis archaeological site in Athens.
• The museum was built to contain every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding
slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece
9. THE MOST FAMOUS BUILDING FROM
GREEK ARCHITECTURE - ACROPOLIS
• a group of buildings built on top of a hill with the main building - the Parthenon.
• The temple was built next to a complex of other buildings on the Acropolis.
• It was the main temple of ancient Athens.
• It was dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos.
• It was built in 447-438 BC.
• On the Athenian Acropolis, its ruins can still be seen there.
10. OLYMPIC GAMES
• We are sport school, we are interested in the history of the Olympic Games
• Some facts about Olympic Games:
- Athens was the host city of the first international modern Olympic Games in 1896
- There were 241 athletes – all men
- They had the largest international participation of any sporting event
- 14 nations took part in the Games
- 108 years later it welcomed The 2004 Summer Olympics
