The Ensemble of the Acropolis of Athens in the Light of Ancient Greek Mythology

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10.2991/icassee-19.2019.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

architecture; town planning; ensemble; worldview; mythology; astral symbolism

Abstract

The article sets the task to find explanations for the structural, architectural, and artistic features of the Acropolis of Athens in the mythological conceptions of the ancient Greeks regarding the cosmic world order. For this purpose, correlations of the objects located on the Acropolis, with their probable heavenly prototypes imprinted on the starry sky are carried out. It is established that the terrestrial projection of constellations corresponded to such turn of the sky at which the Milky Way followed a latitudinal direction, and the plane of ecliptic surrounded by a belt of the Zodiac rose in the West and lowered in eastern direction. In general, the Acropolis was like the ship Argo, aimed at the rising sun. Its southern — right side corresponded with the constellations of the Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio, and the northern — left — Taurus, Aries, Pisces and Aquarius. The first of them was associated with the mother earth and the light wise maiden Athena, while the second one — with the dark and stormy water elements embodied by Poseidon.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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