If the Acropolis is considered the heart of Athens, then Parfenon is definitely the heart of the Acropolis.
He is dedicated to the great goddess of Athens, the patroness of the city, and is rightfully considered one of the greatest temples and the most beautiful architectural structures in the world. Here it is worth remembering the myth of the birth of Athens.
The myths of ancient Greece, without a bill, have always been distinguished by amazing naturalism. However, the fact that the ancient Greeks did not idealize their gods, makes myths psychologically significant.
Zeus had a love relationship with the Titanide of the Metyma, the goddess of reflection, and once Moyra, the goddess of fate, predicted to him that the daughter and son and son would have rushes, and the Son in the future would become the Supreme God. Zeus entered the manner characteristic of him, and, alas, without quotes, he swallowed methoo. Then everything was even more interesting. Once Zeus had a headache, and he decided to find out why. He asked Gefesta to destroy his head with an ax, so that you could, so to speak, visually see what's the matter. I remind you, the Olympians were immortal, and therefore such an operation was possible. The operation was successful, the cause of the headache was found to find out. She turned out to be the goddess Athena, which came out of a split head already adult, in all the brilliance of his beauty, I remind, Athena was one of the most beautiful goddesses, and in full combat armament and armor.
The fact that she came out of the head of Zeus himself, and made her goddess wisdom and mind.
Therefore, it is not surprising that at the construction of her temple Athens did not regret any resources. The sculptural design of the temple made the Great Architect and Sculptor FIDI, and it is entirely built of marble. In addition, a very large amount of ivory, black wood, precious metals was used in construction.
Actually, architects were Callicrat and Yktin.
The main attraction of the temple is the thirty-meter statue of Athena internally personally fidi. In addition to marble, it took more tons of pure gold.
The temple was built approximately in 447 BC, at the time of the pericles.
Unfortunately, now there are few things that remained that it is clearly visible in the photo, but still in Parfenone there is still something to see.
The cost of the input ticket is 12 euros.