This building designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates housed Phidias's chryselephantine sculpture of its patroness holding Nike in her right hand.
Unusually, this building's roof was covered with Pentelic marble instead of terra cotta. This building was preceded at the same site by an "Older" version and the "hundred-footer." This building's metopes focus on struggles like the Gigantomachy, Trojan War, and Centauromachy. Mnesicles designed several buildings in harmony with the proportions of this one, which is the [*] central building of a complex protected by the Propylaia. This Doric building's Ionic frieze depicts a procession. This building designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates housed Phidias's chryselephantine sculpture of its patroness holding Nike in her right hand. The former home of the Elgin Marbles, for 10 points, name this temple dedicated to Athena, atop the Acropolis in Athens.
Unusually, this building's roof was covered with Pentelic marble instead of terra cotta.
Parthenon