This 1910 photo shows reliefs from the Partheno frieze on the Acropolis in Athens. They are scenes from the pageant that represent and illustrate the days of the Panathenaic Festival. Located on the Athenian Acropolis, the Parthenon was the culmination of Greek architecture and was more lavishly decorated than any Greek temple before it. Phidias was the overseer of the temple's sculptural decoration, and every one of the ninety-two Doric metopes had relief sculptural scenes, as well as every inch of the 424-foot-long Ionic frieze. The pediments were filled with dozens of larger-than-life si
This 1910 photo shows reliefs from the Partheno frieze on the Acropolis in Athens. They are scenes from the pageant that represent and illustrate the days of the Panathenaic Festival. Located on the Athenian Acropolis, the Parthenon was the culmination of Greek architecture and was more lavishly decorated than any Greek temple before it. Phidias was the overseer of the temple's sculptural decoration, and every one of the ninety-two Doric metopes had relief sculptural scenes, as well as every inch of the 424-foot-long Ionic frieze. The pediments were filled with dozens of larger-than-life size statues. While scholars still debate the subject of the frieze, most agree that the Panathenaic Festival procession, that took place every four years in Athens, is being represented.
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