The Parthenon is an exterior Kolonnade of eight dorischen columns at each end, and seventeen dorischen columns at each side. Each of these columns curves easily in the center, a mechanism, the columns solid before the openings out sees liveless and all too regular. Beyond that, swelling this (" in Creek as; entasis") corrects the optical deception well-known, with those perfectly straight columns to be seems easily concave. In the temple two chambers, in which the statue of the Athena Parthenos stood, and one, those the temple vault were accommodated.
Today, disappointed not to be inward permitted, a comfort should take over the visitors of the Parthenon from the fact that most Athener became certified into the temple never in the antiquity. Only priest in the treasury, and the statue was ever seen only rare. One of those, saw the statue became Pausanias, which Athena describe, how stand " upright in knöchellang a Tunika with a head carved by Medusa in ivory on the chest. It has a victory over eight meters high and a Speer in the hand and a sign on its feet, and, this queue to be Erichthonios would know a queue beside the sign. "

The temple was decorated with sculptures, whose quality resembled never before and never there. The Metopen (rectangular plates over the columns) became with scenes from the Trojan war in accordance with eating ELT, and by the battle of the Athener and Amazonen, the Lapithen and Zentauren and t it Gods with the giants. Beyond that a Skulpturenfries over the temple large walls represented of the Panathenäen. In the context of this annual celebration, athenischen young men and girl the new garb for the statue of the Athena of Eleusis, the Akropolis accompanies itself. The young men to horses, the girls, the victims oxeri, and the Gods were explained all and cannot be visited today - however not in Athens.

The sculptures, like the Elgin Marbles admits are, to see in. London in the British museum. A few Schnitzereien into force remain, on the Parthenon, and some fragments are to see in the Akropolis museum. Beyond that the Parthenon had monumental sculpture in both Giebeln. As Pausanias briefly said: " As you go into the Parthenon temples mentioned, everything on the Giebel have with the birth to do STRONG> Athena; the other side shows Poseidon controversy with Athena over the Land."
As we know, Athena won this competition, by not saving the first olive tree, and the Athener to honour her with finest temple of Greece. However the Athener was always practical: the gold Insignien, which was disguised the large statue in such a way conceived that for the keeping are removed. The Athener had learned, what one to its holy places in the Persian bag of the Akropolis to happen, the 480 v. Chr.