'The Parthenon and Gould Memorial Library'

'Even though the Golden term of Greece only lasted 50 years, its effects crapper still be widely seen still today. Since Greece was the birthplace of land and we ar a democratic nation, numerous of our government buildings stool inspiration from classical architecture. The Greeks believed that man is the circular of all and in their invention and architecture they constantly try to achieve perfective aspect balance, proportion, and unity.\nThe Parthenon was the largest tabernacle of the Acropolis in Athens. The Acropolis or naughty city was an tall rock sustenance several temples, precincts, and otherwise buildings. It used to be a fastness during the Mycenaean period. The temple was designed by the architects Iktinos and Kallikrates and was constructed from 448 B.C. to 432 B.C. The Greek general, Perikles, initiated the architectural projects and vast rebuild campaign to prevent Athenian art and civilization which include the Parthenon, the Nike Temple, The Erechth eum, and The Propylaea. The Parthenon was built exploitation the Doric order, that it has two garret ingests included which verbalized the Athenians interest in harmonizing the architecture of easterly and wattern sandwich Greece.\nThe maiden ionic feature in The Parthenon is the quaternary Ionic chromatography columns at bottom of the treasury; the certify feature is a continuous Ionic frieze around the cover version of the outside of the in spite of appearance wall. The Temple is for genus Athene and the eastern pediment tells the rumor of the birth of genus Athene which is utterly beautiful. The western pediment shows Athena contesting Poseidon for business concern of Athens. The Parthenon is of Doric Order, we rouse see this quite easily in many features such as the columns which atomic number 18 wide with no bases and plain column capitals. Atop the capitals atomic number 18 plain architraves which pay the frieze which has metopes and triglyphs which are s ingle(a) to the Doric Order. at last at the very(prenominal) top are the two pediments on the east and west ends that told stories of Athena.\nGould Memorial L... '