Modern Day Connections
The plays written by Aeschylus and Sophocles are still performed all around the world today. You can see the runes of many historic sites all throughout Athens. You can even see the ruins on the hill Pnyx were the people of Athens would go and participate in trials and creating new laws. You can visit the Parthenon, a piece of architectural beauty. Athens has such a great impact on the modern day world, that people have named their towns, and cities after Athens. In the early years of the USA, Americans tried to revive ancient Greek and Roman architecture and adapted it to become what is known as popular architectural style from 1780 - 1830, known as federal style. The style used many Techniques and arts that were found in ancient Greece such as, The Doric order. As mentioned earlier The Doric Order was a style of Greek architecture based upon, a set of columns in large buildings topped with a small pendent in the structure. The first main American building to be built in this style was the Second Bank in Philadelphia between 1819 and 1824.This federal Greco - Roman style was very popular at that time and was soon included in many other forms of American architecture. Another prominent and more recent example of the Reincarnation of this architecture was called the Beaux - Arts style which were used in the Former Penn Station, and Low Library at Columbia university, which were both located in New York. Athens has such an impact on the world it was not only the birthplace of democracy, and practically the western world. It gave people ideas, but most of all it made people do something that most don't do too often anymore, think.
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