THE PARTHENON.

Rodrigo Bernal
Steban Díaz
Sofia Murcia
THE PARTHENON IS A TEMPLE
CONSECRATED TO THE
PROTECTOR OF ATHENS, ATHENA
PARTHENOS THE SECOND GOD OF
WAR AFTER ARES.
AND ONE OF THE MAIN DORIC
TEMPLES OF THE OCTOSTYLE,
SOMETHING RARE
MADE OF WHITE
PENTELIC MARBLE
AND COVERED WITH
TILES OF PAROS
MARBLE, 23 which are
conserve.
IT WAS BUILT
BETWEEN 447 BC AND
432 AC. IN THE
ACROPOLIS OF
ATHENS. IT IS THE
BEST KNOWN GREEK
TEMPLE IN THE
WORLD.
IN THE PLACE THERE
WE'RE PREVIOUSLY,
TOWARDS THE Xll
CENTURY A.C., A
MYCENAEN
FORTRESS.
LATER IT BECAME A PLACE OF
WORSHIP WITH THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE "OLD
TEMPLE", ALDO KNOWN AS THE PRE
PARTHENON OR HECATOMPEDON,
WHICH, UNFINISHED, IN 480 BC.IT
WAS DAMAGED BY THE ARMY OF
XERXES 1, STOPPED BY ANTONIDAS
AND HIS TWO MEN, CABADO AND
BRUNIALTES DE CAMOS.
IT WAS DURING THE
FIRE OF ATHENS THAT
OCCURRED DURING
THE SECOND
MEDICAL WAR, AFTER
THE SPARTAN
DEFEAT AT
THERMOPYLAE.
CONTAINED THE PERSIAN ADVANCE
IN SALAMINA, PLATAEA AND MÍCALA,
THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES
WITH PERSIA CAME IN 449 BC. C.
WITH THE PEACE OF CALIAS,
CONCLUDING HALF A CENTURY OF
WAR.
IT IS THIS PERIOD, BETWEEN 480
AND 430 BC. C. WHEN THE
ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY REACHES
ITS PEAK, ONE OF THE BASES OF
EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IS
FORGED AND IT MEETS "THE STARS
OF A SERIES OF CHARISMATIC
CITIZENS" SUCH AS THAT OF THE
POLITICIAN AND MILITARY
PERICLES.
FUN FACTS
IT TOOK 15 YEARS TO
BUILD AND 16 YEARS
TO COMPLETE ITS
DECORATION.
ITS BASE MEASURES
69.6 METERS LONG
AND 30.90 METERS
WIDE.
MANY OF THE
STATUES NOW IN THE
BRITISH MUSEUM ARE
BECAUSE THEY WERE
SOLD DURING THE
PERIOD OF TURKISH
RULE.
IN THE SIXTH
CENTURY A.D. THE
PARTHENON WAS
TRANSFORMED INTO
A CHRISTIAN
CHURCH.
AMONG THE MOST
INTERESTING
CURIOSITIES IS THIS:
AFTER THE
INDEPENDENCE OF
GREECE IN 1832, THE
MINARET THAT THE
OTTOMANS HAD ADDED
TO THE PARTHENON WAS
DESTROYED.
THE END