James "Athenian" Stuart (1713 – 2 February 1788) was a Scottish archaeologist, architect and artist, best known for his central role in pioneering Neoclassicism...
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well-documented direct democracy is said to be the Athenian democracy of the 5th century BC. The main bodies in the Athenian democracy were the assembly, composed...
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was a British architect. Revett is best known for his work with James "Athenian" Stuart documenting the ruins of ancient Athens. He is sometimes described...
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Baalbek, and Palmyra, and the precise architectural drawings of James "Athenian" Stuart (published in the Antiquities of Athens, the first volume of which...
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Pottery: Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related Material," part 1: text, The Athenian Agora 29 (1997), p. 177; Stuart James Fleming, Roman...
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The Athenian Mercury, or The Athenian Gazette, or The Question Project, or The Casuistical Mercury, was a periodical written by The Athenian Society and...
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Jean-Baptiste Greppo, French canon and archaeologist (d. 1767) 1713: James 'Athenian' Stuart, Scottish archaeologist and architect (d. 1788) 1716: January 20...
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chamber) above the Kings chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza. 1762: James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens. 1764: Robert Adam's...
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"Athenian" Stuart (1713–1788), archaeologist and architect James Stuart (artist) (1802–1842), quarantine officer, naturalist, and artist Jim Stuart (1919–1985)...
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since the Athenian democracy. Its modern theory was developed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century and later promoted by John Stuart Mill and G...
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Britain or the Commonwealth. The medallion is a Wedgwood portrait of James ‘Athenian’ Stuart. Source: Society of Architectural Historians 1949 - Harold Wethey...
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Παρθενώνας, romanized: Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena during the...
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Thucydides (category Ancient Athenian generals)
Θουκυδίδης, romanized: Thoukudídēs [tʰuːkydǐdɛːs]; c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the...
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English Restoration (1660-1688), which corresponds to the last years of Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In general, the term is...
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with follies designed by John Pitt (of Encombe), Thomas Pitt, James "Athenian" Stuart, and Sanderson Miller. Planned as part of an 18th-century enthusiasm...
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Hall, Dorset". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 18 May 2017. "James 'Athenian' Stuart, 1713-1788". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2017....
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Propylaia (Acropolis of Athens) (redirect from Propylaea (Athenian acropolis))
that led to the Temple of Athena Nike. This project was supervised by the Athenian Tib. Claudius Novius, and is assumed to have been an Imperial benefaction...
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associated with Athens. Athenian may also refer to: James "Athenian" Stuart (1713–1788), Scottish archaeologist, architect and artist Athenian School, a college...
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English bookseller and author. In 1691 he founded The Athenian Society to publish The Athenian Mercury, the first major popular periodical and first miscellaneous...
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surveyed and drawn by James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett on an expedition in 1751–54, and the engravings were by James Basire (later the master...
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Toup, classical scholar and critic (died 1785) Unknown date – James "Athenian" Stuart, archaeologist, architect and artist (died 1788) 4 February – Anthony...
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The founding of libraries in c.300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers. In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion...
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aforementioned magnificently painted, and fresco-ceiling interiors by James "Athenian" Stuart who had, coincidentally, built the Temple of the Winds at the Londonderry's...
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England, designed by Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, with James "Athenian" Stuart, is built. Church of St. Stephen, Borovo in Serbia is completed...
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Hermes (section Athenian tragic playwrights)
when the Athenian fleet was about to set sail for Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War, all of the Athenian hermai were vandalized. The Athenians at the...
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direct casts of the original sculptures which adorned the pediments of the Athenian Parthenon, dating to 438 BC. The surviving originals are housed in the...
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example of deliberative democracy arose in Greece as Athenian democracy during the sixth century BC. Athenian democracy was both deliberative and largely direct:...
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Boreas, the god of the north wind. Aurae was the title of a play by the Athenian comic poet Metagenes, who was contemporary with Aristophanes, Phrynichus...
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Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 1832 – 8 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was...
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William Strickland, American architect (died 1854) February 2 – James "Athenian" Stuart, English neoclassical architect (born 1733) September 27 – Sir...
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