Sentences with phrase «greek temples»

When kids open Minecraft, Microsoft doesn't just want them exploring dark caverns, endless plains, and procedurally generated mountains; it wants them exploring places carved out of the real world, like ancient Pompeii, the pyramids of Giza, and Greek temples — places they can learn from.

The German photographer's unique images of airports, building sites, pyramids and Greek temples share an otherworldly beauty

This was easier than anticipated due to the abundance of Amazonian and Persian imagery found on almost all ancient Greek temples, including the Parthenon.

The nature of the Villa is heavily influenced by the nearby Archaeological Park of Selinunte, which is the largest park in Europe and home to several Greek temples to Athena and Apollo.

Southern Italy is a fascinating area with its Roman and Greek temples, extensive archaeological remains and ancient cities.

Day 7 Explore independently or join special optional excursions by minibus (bookable locally): the Greek temples of Paestum, Allied landing beaches and war cemetery.

From ancient Greek temples to local markets and modern rooftop bars.

Its current building, in the form of three linked Greek temples, opened in 1928.

Get your history fix a few hours south at the Valley of the Temples, a collection of well - preserved Greek temples outside of Agrigento.

Hittorff lectured in Paris in 1829 - 1830 that Greek temples had originally been painted ochre yellow, with the moulding and sculptural details in red, blue, green and gold.

Follow the coast to Selinunte to visit its Greek temples.

From checking out remains of ancient Greek temples to touring museums, your brain will get cultured in a hurry — the perfect accompaniment to a bronzed body.

Enveloped by The Valley of the Temples archaeological park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, Villa Athena is situated only 200 meters from the Concordia Temple, an ancient Doric masterpiece and one of the best preserved Greek temples outside of Greece.

The cure for overdosing on ancient Greek temples and ruins?

Enjoy warm Mediterranean hospitality, as you journey from picture - perfect fishing villages to ancient Greek temples.

Beautiful residence near Paestum south of Amalfi, which is an ideal place to stay to visit the magnificent Greek temples of Paestum Campania.

Cefalu is a great beach holiday and Agrigento is the place to see the greek temples.

Agrigento is famous for its magnificent greek temples -LSB-...]

Greek Temples, Baroque towns and sumptuous cuisine are some of the many attractions of this unspoiled regions of Sicily, which is also the southernmost part of Italy.

For a dose of history, travel to Agrigento, home to the fifth - century B.C. Valley of the Temples — a collection of seven Doric - style Greek temples... Read More

Oh, yes, Roman ruins, Saracen towers, Bourbon French fortresses, Greek temples, medieval monasteries, and abandoned mountain villages are there, too, in case the splendid seaside is not enticement enough.

This lesson takes students through the basic differences between Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Greek Temples.

I love the cut and the unusual detailing of this dress — you'd have thought the designer was inspired by Greek temples!

This was known as a «whitening of New England,» as churches, commercial buildings, and dwellings reflected the white marble facades of ancient Greek temples.

If you visit our universities, you will find styles of architecture that are outright copies of Roman and Greek temples.

Corinth was not destroyed because Sodom was supposed to serve as the example, it having been destroyed centuries before the Greek temple prost / itution in Corinth.

The dimensions of the Greek temple did not inspire awe and the sense of mystery.

Both the sensitivity to visual form and the glorification of the human are also attested by the Greek temple.

In other words, the Greek temple helped the human observer to organize his world in terms of objective forms, rather than in terms of subconscious forces or aspiration for some superhuman state.

and according to Strong's, «pornos» means «male prostitute»... considering the times and location, probably had to do with the Greek temple prostitutes... sex for religion...

The restful atmosphere of the Greek temple reflects this theme.

I opened my first book, Athletic Body in Balance, with the inscription from the Greek temple at Delphi: «Know Thyself.»

How about the history classroom, where instead of listening to a teacher lecture about ancient Athens, students take a virtual tour and then use 3 - D design software like SketchUp to build a simple model of a Greek temple as a way to internalize classical principles such as balance?

Thassos has a striking hilltop Byzantine monastery, an outstanding archaeological museum and an ancient Greek temple at Alyki as well as great beaches.

The observatory resembles a Greek temple and is home to a 15 - centimeter (6 - inch) refractor in the dome and 16 - centimeter (6.4 - inch) transit telescope in the east wing.

It's a superb location for anyone wanting to discover the central - west area of Sicily particularly Segesta and its Greek temple and theatre and the medieval city of Erice.

While a critic of 1843 saw «a club, a people's bank or a phalanstery» in «this dream of the gardens of Academe,» and noted the unusual amalgamation of Horace's Odes and Plato's dialogues with the steamship and the telegraph, the expendability of these contemporary elements is revealed when L'Artiste announces that Papety, on the basis of critical advice, has replaced his steamboat with a Greek temple, «which,» remarks the anonymous critic, with unconscious irony, «is perhaps more ordinary but also more severe than socialism in painting.»

Spanish artists PichiAvo's fallen Greek temple column that looks like traditional seaside rock

«Whether it's Zeus staring at you from a Greek temple 2,000 years ago or Drake gazing at you from the cover of a magazine, there's this continuity in our hunger for images of people who stare back at us.»

Like caryatids on an ancient Greek temple, they stand calmly supporting the weight of their professional duties.

encoded systems of world philosophies; in addition to Taoist ideas, Jensen worked with the Mayan calendar, Greek temple plans, and other systems of light and time to create carefully worked, deeply symbolic paintings that Peter Schjeldahl described as «gorgeous and cryptic.»

Thisfeeling of being unable to retrieve and read data in a manageable way was expressed in tangible form on the gallery wall in the form of digitally printed wallpaper, the central element of which was a «wait» cursor from an obsolete generationof Apple software — a black wristwatch — surrounded by blurry, vector - drawn steam - trainsand a Greek temple: the out - of - date ridiculed by the seriously antique (Some Civic Shades, 2011).

NCAR is situated up on a bluff by the Flatirons (just like a Greek temple).

In turn, the EU has sketched out a «Greek temple» vision of a deal, consisting of four pillars for trade relations, home affairs, foreign policy and cooperation agreements on aviation, fisheries and education, and a roof for the governance and dispute resolution mechanism.

Not exact matches

At the Greek seafood temple Milos in midtown Manhattan, fish are shipped in from the Mediterranean and priced by weight — some upward of $ 50 per pound.

In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.

Hanukkah, for those who need a refresher course, marks the miracle of the successful defense of the Jewish temple by the Maccabees, an army of Jewish rebels, against the Goliath - like Syrian - Greek army in 165 BC.

When one looks at the most beautiful or historically important buildings in the World, they tend to be religious monuments — the pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica, the great cathedrals of Europe, Spilt Blood and St. Isaacs in Saint Petersburg, the Greek and Roman temples, the Taj Mahal, the Wots of Asia, even the modern Mormon temples in Salt Lake City and the like.

Augustus was hailed as a god and temples were raised for him at several places including one at Muziris by the Greek residents in India.

No temple of worship should be allowed to be built at ground zero until the only place of worship that was destroyed in the 9/11 disaster is allowed to rebuild: St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church!