Where is Parthenon?
Where is Parthenon situated?
On the Parthenon of Athens, the major temple of the Acropolis, the highest hill of Athens, built as a gift to the goddess Athena Parthenos.
The Parthenon is the main temple of the Acropolis, the highest hill of Athens, built as a gift to the goddess Athena Parthenos (virgin) but constituted, at the same time, the sum expression of the traditions and cultural life of Athens periclea, at the highest moment of its history.
The Parthenon, built in place of a great archaic temple (Hekatm Pedon), then replaced by an unfinished temple (destroyed during the Persian sacking of 480 BC), was begun, on the orders of Pericles, at the end of the sixth century BC, more precisely in 447 BC.,
Are the Acropolis and Parthenon the same thing?
Is the Parthenon still in Athens?
How many Parthenon’s are there?