Building the Parthenon
“The Acropolis of Athens, 440 BCE. Pentelic marble drums are hoisted into place along the colonnade under Pericles' patronage. Foreground shows Phidias directing sculptors carving the metopes; midground reveals scaffolds wrapping the cella where the great chryselephantine Athena rises; the Saronic Gulf shines past the Piraeus rooftops.”
