Parthenon

How To Use Parthenon In A Sentence

• There's the Parthenon, built in 446 B.C., with its colonnade of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure.
• Forget the Parthenon and the Acropolis; these days the Patriot Missile launchers unsubtly stationed across the city are the tourist sites du jour.
• From their arrival in England the ‘Elgin Marbles’ had a revolutionary impact on European taste, and the Parthenon sculptures are still considered to mark the apogee of Greek art.
• The basilica, and the Parthenon itself, became the forefathers of the mosque and the church.
• Consolidation of a column in the Parthenon's opisthodomos (rear chamber) (Spencer P.M. Harrington) [LARGERIMAGE] Acropolis Update
• The seat of government is a long, self-imposing, hubristic strip of robber-baron parthenons, built, oxymoronically, like banks and temples. Times, Sunday Times
• The Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Parthenon in Greece, the downtown police station in Venice.
• A country is fundamentally a concept, and it is natural and built symbols like our Washington Monument, Japan's Mount Fuji, Saudi Arabia's Mecca, Greece's Parthenon, Mexico's Zocalo Square or Namibia's Sossusvlei desert that lend it a physical presence. Jake Townsend: Metaphors Made Real: On the Power of National Symbols
• You can see the Parthenon from anywhere in Athens, gleaming whitely on the Acropolis.
• When Greeks talk about their missing marbles, they are usually referring to Lord Elgin's souvenir-hunting around the Parthenon.