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parthenon
/ˈpɑːɹθənɑːn/
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What does parthenon mean?
proper noun
- An ancient temple to Athena and monument in the city of Athens. It is a symbol of Greek achievement in the arts and of Athenian democracy.
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I am sorry I have not seen the "Athenaeum," but I now take in the "Parthenon."
The very Parthenon itself saw Demetrius consorting with harlots and debauching free women of Athens.
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Above all, I had been pondering over the awful and yet tender beauty of the maiden figures from the Parthenon and its kindred temples.
Was it he, perhaps, who taught the Greeks to strike a rising and swinging blow from the hip, as depicted in the famous metopes of the Parthenon?
He went up to seize her hand, and found she was clammy as a marine deity, and that her clothes clung to her like the robes upon the figures in the Parthenon frieze.