CLASSICAL+GREECE

GLORIOUS ART AND ARCHITECTURE**
 * [[image:http://www.revisionism.nl/Parthenon/p-athena.jpg width="330" height="623" align="right" caption="Statue of Athena"]]

Greek artists and architects created magnificent sculptures and buildings to glorify Athens. A wise and able statesman named Pericles had a plan to make Athens a beautiful city. At the center of his plan was one of architecture's noblest works- The Parthenon. Pericles entrusted most of the work on the Parthenon on a sculptor named Phidias. Phidias crafted a giant statue of Athena that not only contained such precious materials as gold, ivory, but also stood over 30 feet tall.