The Parthenon, dedicated to the goddess Athena and constructed on the Athenian Acropolis between 447 and 432 BCE, has long been renowned for the elegance of its architecture and beauty of its sculpture. Pericles misappropriated defense funds to erect this powerfully influential Doric temple.

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