FILE: 23_Parthenon.jpg

TITLE: ARCHITECTURE - The Parthenon - GREECE

DESCRIPTION: PARTHENON, a building on the ACROPOLIS. DORIC STYLE. Rebuilt in CLASSICAL PERIOD - 438 BCE - after Persians destroyed it in 480 BCE. Pericles got Pheidias to rebuild Parthenon against their normal custom of leaving ruins "as is". Funded with Delian League treasury money.