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Parthenon in Acropolis - Athen, Greece

10/28/2008 / Posted by Lets Travel Around the World /


This is one of the most and beautiful attraction in Athens Greece. This is the Parthenon on the Acropolis. This Parthenon was built through the initiative of Pericles. The construction of this Parthenon was started in the late 447 BC and it was completely build at the year of 438 BC. The architects of this great architecture were Iktinos and Kallikrates. In the year 425 BC all the design and decorations was being made by the sculptor Pheidias and the other 70 sculptors with him. But in the year 1618-94 the Venetian Francesco Morosini tried to destroy the Athena’s team by his chariots horses and trying to remove the sculpture group from the west pediment and the approximate or exact number of dimensions of the Parthenon are W = 30.88 m , L = 69.5 m and H = 13.72 m in which its r = 9/4. there are almost 46 columns surround the approximately 31 m x 70 m temple. And 10-12 drums of varying heights with 20 shallow flutings.


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