RE: 'They may well have been scandalized by what did go up on the
Parthenon since
there was nothing quite like it Greek temples before or since.'
"That would explain why they were so proud of the Parthenon ..."
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Were Greeks proud of the Parthenon? How would we know?
How would we even know whether contemporary Australians are proud of the
Sydney Opera House? -- or Chicagoans proud of Sears Tower? (I'm not -- I think
it's big and nothing more - just like our airport)
I think a discussion of aesthetics has to occur outside these kind of vacuous
assertions.
The Parthenon sculpture, painted or not, aestheticized the young male body
like no other monument before the 15th C. -- and that uniqueness needs to be
considered - rather than attaching its qualities to a general statement about
the ancient Greeks.
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