Parthenon

A Doric temple on the Acropolis whose proportions and entasis became a reference point for the classical tradition.

It was a political and religious symbol of fifth-century BCE Athens. The negative year is an approximate educational completion date.

Subtle refinements to columns and entablature create the optical impression of straightness.

Later Neoclassicism repeatedly treated it as an archetype.

Classical Greek

Architect Ictinus and Callicrates