The Parthenon was everything to the Greeks!
It was located at the highest point in Athens called the Acropolis. It celebrated Athena Parthenos.
It was built in th classical period and its style of architecture was dorky doric. :)
It was composed of 70,000 unique marble peices. Can you imagine having to put all of that together?!
The dimensions were 101ft x 228ft! Its Columns were 33 ft tall and on the inside was a 40 ft statue of Athena draped in gold! How awesome is that! There was no straight lines at all in the Parthenon and it was perfectly flat, it actually was bowing so it gace the illusion of being perfectly flat. It was made up of post and lintel construction.
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