A small shrine has been excavated within the building on the site of an older sanctuary probably dedicated to athena as a way to get closer to the goddess but the parthenon never hosted the cult of athena polias patron of athens.
How did they get th roof on the parthenon.
People often think that the bomb which blew up the parthenon in 1687 was shot by cannon placed on the nearby philopappou hill as a theory it is attractive but it is also untrue.
The parthenon marbles greek.
Instead it was the parthenon that presented morosini with the most logical target as he pulled up his artillery on the philipappus hill.
They were originally part of the temple of the parthenon and other buildings on the acropolis of athens.
The parthenon is a resplendent marble temple built between 447 and 432 b c.
As a post and lintel temple the parthenon presents no engineering breakthrough in building construction.
During the height of the ancient greek empire.
The cult image which was.
It was built in the mid 5th century bce and dedicated to the greek goddess athena parthenos.
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Despite the earlier destruction of the propylaea the parthenon was being used by the turks as a gunpowder store possibly in the belief that this extraordinary survivor from the classical age was protected by the sheer weight of history.
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Dedicated to the greek goddess.
γλυπτά του παρθενώνα also known as the elgin marbles ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɪ n are a collection of classical greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor phidias and his assistants.
However its stylistic conventions have become the paradigm of classical architecture and its style has influenced architecture for many centuries after it was built.
The parthenon was destroyed by a venetian bomb on the night between the 26th and 27th of september 1687 for the background story see an older post.
The temple is generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the doric architectural order.
The architect manolis korres in his book from penteli to parthenon melissa pub argues that now with the existing technology but also the possibility of an equal number or more technicians it would not be possible to build the parthenon in eight nine years that was built by the ancients.