Choragic Monument of Lysicrates
The Monument of Lysicrates (also Lysikratesdenkmal, Lantern of Diogenes ) in Athens, close to the Ostabhangs the Acropolis in the Plaka district, was in the 2nd half of the 4th century. BC built by order of Choregen Lysikrates and recalls its victory with a boys' choir during the festival in honor of Dionysus in 335/334 BC It was originally the prize of Lysikrates, a gilded bronze tripod.
Like the Tower of the Winds, it became the model for classical pavilions.
History
In ancient Athens each year were held musical competitions during the celebrations in honor of the god Dionysus. In one of these competitions, the dithyramb, members of each Attic tribes competed against each other. The Choregen of the winning choir donated the Attic State a golden tripod, with the condition that this be placed in a public place within the city. Lysikrates, the BC won the day in the year 335/334 under the Archon Euainetos, made for this purpose a monument to the Tripodenstraße build that was lined in ancient times by many such Dreifußmonumenten.
In post-ancient times the monument as a " lantern of Demosthenes " was known. 1669 was involved in a Capuchin monastery built at that time and from then on used as a reading room and library. Therefore, the anecdote may have been established, Demosthenes had already used it in ancient times for such a purpose. The monastery was damaged during the Greek War of Independence. By 1840, made Theophil Hansen drawings of the monument, he used details of the monument later in his buildings. 1892, the monument was restored, the built environment has been transformed space -like, so that it is more since the center.
Architectural form
On a square base of Piraeus limestone, a hexastyle, Corinthian Pseudomonopteros of Pentelic marble rises. Typical time was the use of various types of stone for optical reasons, the new Corinthian order in the exterior - the Kapitellform not yet correspond to the later Corinthian capitals. The construction seems to have been originally planned with free intercolumniations. For statistical reasons marble slabs between the columns were then fitted but still during the construction. Only the eastern, the street facing intercolumnium remained open and allowed free viewing of the interior of the monument, where there may be a statue was erected. Today, even the Ostinterkolumnium is sealed with a marble top. Between the capitals of the columns are relief panels depicting two tripods. The frieze is decorated with a circumferential relief representing Dionysus in the transformation of pirates into dolphins. He may have come from a workshop that was influenced by Leochares. On the acroterium of the marble roof originally sat on the tripod recovered. The monument is today without the tripod, about ten feet high.