Parthenon

How To Use Parthenon In A Sentence

• There's the Parthenon, built in 446 B.C., with its colonnade of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure.
• That is, the interpretation of the Acropolis as an archetypal composition of primary building types: the Parthenon, a trabeated temple (columns and beams), and the Erechtheum, a building composed of walls.
• The raw energy, just curbed by their athletic riders, of the Parthenon horses comes to us straight from the ice age, from the dawn of humanity.
• The building was a prodigious limestone parthenon done in the early thirties in the Civic Moderne style.
• The great circular altar may yet be traced at the east front of the Parthenon, which was hypaethral.
• Name a neighbourhood and chances are it has its own Parthenon-styled eatery, complete with the requisite souvlaki, tzatziki and calamari.
• I mean the kind of colossal gold and ivory “chryselephantine” in academic jargon creations that once dominated the inside of the Parthenon or the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. A glimpse of Greece in Bologna
• The Parthenon is a magnificent structure.
• Though of Western design, the ensemble had been created for the Old Summer Palace near Beijing, whose looting and destruction in 1860 by Anglo-French forces (led by General Cousin-Montauban and the eighth Lord Elgin, whose father acquired marbles from the Parthenon) has become a symbol of national humiliation for the Chinese. The Affair of the Chinese Bronze Heads
• Until the completion of the Parthenon, the opisthodomos of the pre-Persian temple might properly be The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1