I would agree with Sabloff re the Parthenon: it was built quickly
(fifteen years!) at the beginning of the ascendancy of international
Attic influence, and then that influence trailed off into Hellenism
and eventually the Roman Empire.
The others I don't know about. But Sabloff's credentials are pretty
good, and he may only have meant it as a rule-of-thumb, not an
invariant.
On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:10 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Yes, examples are the step pyramid in Chichen Itza
("El Castillo"), the North Acropolis of Tikal,
and the Acropolis of Copan (for example temple 26).
-J.
----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Johnson
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn
But don't forget that often times the grand structures we see today
were built atop previous and smaller versions, which were built atop
previous and smaller version, etc. It's turtles all the way down.
-tom
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