Parthenon

Parthenon

ca. 447 BCE - 432 BCE

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Iktinos

Kallikrates

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Greek

built works

Greece (nation)

Athens (inhabited place)

Classical

temples (buildings)

columns (architectural elements)

entablatures

Doric order

View of upper corner of the Parthenon's columns and entablature. "Doric peripteral temple, 8 x 17 columns. Double cella with pronaos and opisthodomos, both with 6 prostyle columns. The smaller west cella had 4 interior columns. Inside the east cella was a U-shaped colonnade of 9 columns and a pier on each long side, and 3 columns between the 2 piers on the short side. (Travlos reconstructs columns in place of the piers.) Toward the west end of the interior colonnade was a statue base for the cult statue of Athena Parthenos with a large shallow rectangle cut to create a reflecting pool in front of it. Bronze doors are postulated for both eastern and western cellas,"--Perseus Digital Library.

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