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The Parthenon was built in the 5th century BC in thanksgiving for the Hellenic victory over Persian Empire invaders during the Greco-Persian Wars. [10] Like most Greek temples, the Parthenon also served as the city treasury. [11] [12] Construction started in 447 BC when the Delian League was at the peak of its power. It was completed in 438 BC ...
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...
Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.
The Ionic frieze on the north side of the Parthenon, is created (finished in 432 BC). Parts of this frieze are now preserved in museums in Europe, including the Horsemen (at the British Museum , London), and the Marshals and Young Women (now at Musée du Louvre , Paris), which once formed part of the Procession on the frieze.
The Parthenon frieze is the defining monument of the High Classical style of Attic sculpture. [31] It stands between the gradual eclipse of the Severe style , as witnessed on the Parthenon metopes, [ 32 ] and the evolution of the Late Classical Rich style , exemplified by the Nike balustrade .
Mikon, a Greek man (potentially a shepherd) from the 6 th century BC, may have left us the ultimate clue to an unknown temple that once filled the space now occupied by the great Parthenon.And ...
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This is a timeline of ancient Greece from its emergence around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages, Aegean civilizations and Mycenaean Greece. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece. For modern Greece after 1820, see Timeline of modern Greek history.