Erechtheum+and+Porch+of+Maidens

=**History**=

====The Erechtheum took near 10 to 15 years to be completed. It was designed by Mnesicles and sculpted by Phidias, who also sculped the Parthenon. The Erechtheum was a temple built for religous ceremonies that the Athenians did and beleived in. The Erechtheum was built for the king Erechtheus also called Erechthonius. They also said that the Erechtheum was built to replace the destructed temple of Peisistratid that was dedicated to Athene but then they built the Parthenon that was the official replacement of the Peisistratid. The western part was built for Athena Polias and the eastern part for Poseidon.====

=Characteristics=


 * The Erechtheum is on a little slope in the Acropolis so its a little higher that all the other buildings. The slope is about 3 meters taller than the other part. The Erechtheum has Ionic columns like the temple of Diana. These columns are called "The woman style column" because they had curls in its capital. All the marble used to built the Erechtheum and the Porch of Maidens was taken from Mount Pentelikon. All its marble is white but nowadays the color is a little worn. The Porch of Maidens also had white marble and it is very famous because of its woman-statue columns, these statues that are also columns are called Carytides. All of the Carytides except for one are made of the same marble, the exception statue is made of plaster. Another amazing thing is that even though the Erechtheum is destroyed, the porch of Maidens is intact except from the taken statue, and the most slender part of the statues, the necks, are still intact.**

=People and places=

The Erechtheum and The Porch of Maidens were built by Mnesicles and sculped by Phidias as you already had read. The Erechtheum is destroyed because of all the tremors and earthquakes that happened in that time. The Porch of Maidens was nos destroyed at all, only the usual wear that hapenns to all the old buildings after a long time of not being taken care.

=Renovations and changes=

Basicly the only change people have made from those buildings is that the British had taken a Carityde from the Porch of Maidens and replaced it with one exact replica but made of plaster. They made it of plaster because they didn''t care about Greek semi-destroyed buildings.

=Floor Plan=

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José Soto and José Vélez
1st course seccion "B"