Parthenon

Parthenon

447-432 BCE

5486

Iktinos

Kallikrates

Phidias

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Greek

Single Built Works

Greece (nation)

Athens (inhabited place)

Classical

temples (buildings)

cellae

Doric order

Interior view of the Parthenon, including cella, in Athens, Greece. Gordon Bugbee Collection. "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 ... The Parthenon was created by Iktinos, Kallikrates and Pheidias. The eastern cella was dedicated to Athena Polias ... and the western cella was dedicated to Athena Parthenos, "the Virgin," from which the whole building became known as the Parthenon,"--Perseus Digital Library.

marble (rock)

Stylobate: 30.88 x 69.50 meters; height exterior columns: 10.43 meters

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