The Parthenon
The Ancients
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The Acropolis and the Parthonon
The entrance way to the Acropolis got a monumentalized entrance way called the properlaya which you'd be forgiven for thinking it looks like a temple. The arachthian is a very impressive temple in its own right and then you have the parthonon, these were the two larger temples and structures. There was also a small sanctuary to Artemis bryronia which had a bronze statue of Artemis in it but at this time it really was the showstopper of the fifth century Athenian Acropolis. Do we know from numismatic evidence or anything like that at the time what the temple looked like? It's strange because it suggests that they didn't really care
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