NOVA | Optical Tricks of the Parthenon | PBS

[mozeus5]

I watched this episode, it was good. I love documentaries like this. I noticed that overhead cranes were used to move segments of the columns around, some pieces that weigh 10 tons. My question is how did the Greeks that built the Parthenon get such large pieces up high to build the columns.

[tbrinley54]

Could it have been to drain the floor as well during rain?

[MingyaX3]

wait, how did the optical ilusion work with the parthenon, i still dont get it...(13 year old girl, dutch and needs info about the secrets/trics of the parthenon (HOMEWORK T^T))

[IMayBeADreamer5]

@MingyaX3 ya..i am not quite so sure either

[ColourH3AR7]

lol everytime they say Parthenon I think that they are saying parking lot

[paraponon]

Except, Jimmy, if the marbles were returned to Greece they would not be put back on the Parthenon on the Acropolis, but would be put in the museum. I don't think any archaeologist in Greece agrees with your suggestion of placing them in the open on a building that can no longer hold them.

[MrSlayer250]

fake and gay

[squawk25]

@MrSlayer250 fake and gay?

by far the stupidest thing ive ever heard

[BrandonANDBrantonTV]

@squawk25 it's a meme.

[oppenheimer12]

@MrSlayer250 You must be under a misapprehension. What do you mean?

[gualo21]

@MrSlayer250 go to ray's channel and stay there.

[DrakeMagnum]

That is an amazing concept. Go Greeks!

[ebutemetube]

Very interesting!

[dropdeadugly100]

Its no optical illusion it was done on purpose to counter the curvature of the Akropolis

[dropdeadugly100]

The columns at the front and back of the Parthenon are longer than those down the sides because the Akropolis causes the stereobate to curve.

[Koroush51]

Nice, but what is this building made for?

[ILCOSTI]

it's a temple... pray gods, sacrifice animals, be covered when is rainy... that's all

[gimisektomorf]

you say that because greece has better and older history than your country...

[ILCOSTI]

what that supposed to mean? that i have offended the greece culture? i realy to get to your point sry...

[gimisektomorf]

i am sorry that was not fo you.ive benn to italy very nice country...do you know a village kalhmera in italh with name kalhmera?

[ajsyrn222]

its demeters temple

[sabin15]

Yes yes they built everything on angles to make it look as though it is straight. Thats why New Yorkers are so crazy, they think everything is caving in on themhahahya ya bad joke I dont care.

[nikitaley]

I do not see any optical trick in the parthenon!?

[metube80]

Watch the video with your eyes facing towards the computer monitor. That's the thing the pictures come out of.

[cassandra5322]

genius!

[Fancie1982]

marble!!!!

[sn1pe352]

its all about the golden ratio

the building is a microcosmos

[JimmyTheGreek2000]

The so called Elgin Marbles now in the British Museum belong to the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens.

[anikinippon]

@JimmyTheGreek2000 Hitchens and I are on your side

[gilbertobesanko]

the found the technique of the method descovered on the temple of apolos in now turky the ilusion was inteded they found the grids also the gaps wer 1/32 of a mill apart and the temple was built on a golden ratio and other ratios it was a very hard construction they are finding it dificult to resore its taking thwm 10 years even with the modern technology we have today the greeks of old were more precise with there cuting of stone

[jarelchico]

nice optical illusions, interesting.

[animefreak114]

i watch this one tv it fully is is so cool like its a hairs with diffrent on each pillar and stuff like that is really cool

[m1sterh0tsauc3]

pretty cool

NOVA delivers once again!

[dylanotto]

Literally the DNA?

[olsdude]

hey, that was exactly what I thought. Does this woman understand what literally means? I mean, isn't it the exact opposite of what she should be saying? She should have said "what we have here is kinda like the DNA of the Parthenon"

[Konko123]

I think she means, like the DNA is the template for each new strand, the temple is the template for the Parthenon

[dylanotto]

apparently the word "literally" can literally mean it's opposite. I will relent from my anger.

[Konko123]

Okay, didn't get that but sure.

[MAKEDANOS]

She meant "literally" in a figurative sense. ;P

[RatkoUSA]

Looks interesting. I'll be back on the 30th.