432 BCE
The Parthenon Completed
Athens · Greece · Monument · Classical Antiquity
The story
Iktinos and Kallikrates built almost no straight lines: the stylobate curves upward, the columns lean inward and swell at the middle, correcting the eye rather than the stone.
Funded in large part from the treasury of the Delian League, the building was as much an imperial statement as a religious one.
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15
years
46
columns
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