Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

The Parthenon through Time

The Huge Temple to the goddess Athena, the Parthenon, has sat atop the Acropolis, a large hill in the center of Athens, Greece, for more than two thousand years. The temple was completed in 438 B.C.E., and an enormous gold-and-ivory statue of Athena was placed in the cella (the inner chamber of the temple). For the next

700 years, the building stood relatively untouched (the enormous statue of Athena was replaced by a smaller marble, one probably in the second century B.C.E.).

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