Identifier: generalhistoryfo01myer (find matches)
Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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edead. Theatres. —The most noted of Greek theatres was the Theatreof Dionysus at Athens, which was the model of all the others. Itwas semi-circular in form, and was partly cut in the rock on thesoutheastern slope of the Acropolis, the Greeks in the constructionof their theatres generally taking advantage of a hillside. Therewere about one hundred rows of seats, the lowest one, borderingthe orchestra, consisting of sixty-seven marble arm-chairs. Thestructure would hold thirty thousand spectators. 2. Sculpture and Painting. Progress in Sculpture: Influence of the Gymnastic Art.— Wood was the material first employed by the Greek artists. About known as the Great Panathensea, which was celebrated every four years inhonor of the patron-goddess of Athens. The larger part of the frieze is nowin the British Museum, the Parthenon having been despoiled of its coronal ofsculptures by Lord Elgin. Read Lord Byrons The Curse of Minerva. Tothe poet, Lord Elgins act appeared worse than vandalism.
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(5 184 SCULPTURE AND- PAINTING. the eighth century B.C. bronze and marble were generally substi-tuted for the less durable material. With this change sculpturebegan to make rapid progress. But what exerted the mostpositive influence upon Greeksculpture was the gymnastic art.The exercises of the gymnasiumand the contests of the sacredgames afforded the artist unri-valled opportunities for the studyof the human form. The wholerace, as Symonds says, livedout its sculpture and its painting,rehearsed, as it were, the greatworks of Phidias and Polygnotus,in physical exercises, before itlearned to express itself in marbleor in color. As the sacred buildings in-creased in number and costliness,the services of the artist werecalled into requisition for theiradornment. At first the templeheld only the statue of the god;but after a time it became, as we have already seen, a sort of na-tional museum. The entablature, the pediments, and every nicheof the interior of the shrine, as well as the surr

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