As age replaces age with new speculations, scholars reappraise this epic piece of architecture, for "speculations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are already mostly out of date, and original source materials are rare" (Bruno xiv). What historians do, as a rule, have to go on are the stories preserved by Plutarch, who reflects a "spirit that undoubtedly prevailed at Athens as a plan took shape to reconstruct the sanctuary which had been left in ruins by the Persians" (Bruno xiv). This plan was so Athenian to the core that even (as Plutarch mentions) the animals seemed to throw their very being into the operation. Conclusion

In conclusion, Greek architecture has produced some of the world's finest marvels, and was especially brilliant during the rule of Pericles in the Golden Age of Greece. Greek architecture employed a wide variety of tricks to keep its temples from seeming top heavy and to make them aesthetically pleasing to the eye. They were also masters of acoustics (as evidenced by their...

Greek architecture, in fact, has influenced all centuries of design -- but it is the Parthenon that remains a monument to the political, economic, social, artistic, and historical power that was ancient Athens following the Persian Wars and preceding the Peloponnesian Wars.
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