The Parthenon .

The Greeks went from the theater of Dionysus to the Parthenon in their sandals.

This is the Parthenon. It's only 2,450 years old, and look what happened to it.

He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon).

As such, they represent more than half of what now remains of the surviving sculptural decoration of the Parthenon.

Timeline Timeline according to Priya Hemenway Phidias (490 430 BC) made the Parthenon statues that seem to embody the golden ratio.

The effect is to momentarily create a frozen, timeless state, somewhat like figures frozen in action on the frieze of the Parthenon.

For instance, the pillars at Hōryū ji are similar to the pillars of the Parthenon of ancient Greece, as seen in their entasis.

The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece, Athenian democracy and western civilization, and one of the world's greatest cultural monuments.

Do you realize that if you had started building the Parthenon on the day you were born, you would be all done in only one more year?

metopes on the Parthenon depicting the sack of Troy) this artistic preference for themes deriving from the Trojan Cycle indicates its importance to the Ancient Greek civilization.

The architects Mnesikles and Callicrates are said to have called the building Hekatompodos ( the hundred footer ) in their lost treatise on Athenian architecture, and, in the 4th century and later, the building was referred to as the Hekatompedos or the Hekatompedon as well as the Parthenon the 1st century AD writer Plutarch referred to the building as the Hekatompedon Parthenon .

The best known octastyle buildings surviving from antiquity are the Parthenon in Athens, built during the Age of Pericles (450 430 BC), and the Pantheon in Rome (125 AD).

Some of the financial accounts for the Parthenon survive and show that the largest single expense was transporting the stone from Mount Pentelicus, about from Athens, to the Acropolis.

According to this theory, the name of the Parthenon means the temple of the virgin goddess and refers to the cult of Athena Parthenos that was associated with the temple.

Because the Parthenon was dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, it has sometimes been referred to as the Temple of Minerva, the Roman name for Athena, particularly during the 19th century.

But it's believed that the oldest living Redwoods are perhaps 2,500 years old roughly the age of the Parthenon although it's also suspected that there may be individual trees that are older than that.

The battle between the Athenians and Amazons is often commemorated in an entire genre of art, amazonomachy, in marble bas reliefs such as from the Parthenon or the sculptures of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

The heritage of the classical era is still evident in the city, represented by ancient monuments and works of art, the most famous of all being the Parthenon, considered a key landmark of early Western civilization.

Also, Alexander sent 300 Persian armours to the Parthenon of Athens as an oblation to Athena, with this epigram Alexander, son of Philipp, and the Greeks, except of Lacedaemonians, from the barbarians who live in Asia .

Jamauri D. Green holds that the parthenon was the room in which the peplos presented to Athena at the Panathenaic Festival was woven by the arrephoroi, a group of four young girls chosen to serve Athena each year.

It was from the alliance's treasury that Pericles drew the funds necessary to enable his ambitious building plan, centered on the Periclean Acropolis , which included the Propylaea, the Parthenon and the golden statue of Athena, sculpted by Pericles' friend, Phidias.

Etymology The origin of the Parthenon's name is from the Greek word παρθενών ( parthenon ), which referred to the unmarried women's apartments in a house and in the Parthenon's case seems to have been used at first only for a particular room of the temple it is debated which room this is and how the room acquired its name.

Ancient era The Pharos of Alexandria, the pyramids in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Acropolis and the Parthenon in Greece, the Roman aqueducts, Via Appia and the Colosseum, Teotihuacán and the cities and pyramids of the Mayan, Inca and Aztec Empires, the Great Wall of China, the Brihadeeswarar Temple of Thanjavur and tombs of India, among many others, stand as a testament to the ingenuity and skill of the ancient civil and military engineers.