'THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE" 



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Photograph by Fred Boissonnas 



THE WESTERN PORTICO OF THE PARTHENON 



Even in ruins the great temple of Athena Parthenos, crowning the Acropolis, is the chief 

 glory of Greece. It was erected during the rule of Pericles under the direct superintendence of 

 Phidias, greatest of sculptors. Phidias himself made the colossal ivory and gold statue of the 

 divinity which was inclosed within the magnificent shrine and dedicated in 438 B. C. 



