The Parthenon
The Ancients
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The Parsonon and the Origins of Athens
It's surely someone trying to look up they wouldn't be able to make out any written words because it's so far up in the temple anyway. It's one of the reasons why that they have these types and narratives because you're so far away from itYou have to be able to visually recognise it so that's why it's kind of amplified. And keeping on that a bit longer but focusing on the pediments you mentioned how you got the birth of Athena and then Athena being chosen as the patron deity of Athens. What does the choice of these two stories what does it tell us about the fields how the Athenians valued these myths above all others about Athenian values? Well this ties
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