Auteur : Erasmusathens
Date de création : 25-11-2010
The Parthenon
10/03/2016
The Parthenon is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece. It is located at the highest point of the Acropolis, so we can see it far away.
THe Parthenon is dedicated to the goddess Athena, protectress of the city of Athens. It's construction began in 447 BCE and finished in 432 BCE during the reign of Pericles. It was designed by the sculptor, Phidias and the architect,
Iktinos to receive the statue of the goddess Athena and to shelter money from the city and the Delian League. The temple was built in white marble. From the outside we could see eight columns in front and seventeen on each side. The fieze represent the religious festival of the Panathenaic. But this wonderfull monument was much damage, in first by the Turkish occupation in 1687 and after by British .
There are more than fifteen others edifices on the Acropolis . There are the theatre of Dionysus, the sanctuary of Zeus, the odeon of Pericles,... My favorite is the Erechtheum because I like the columns, they represent woman named Caryatids. Moreover, there are a museum where it is exposed some statues or part of the fieze.
