Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens ...

In 447 Pericles began the project he is most famous ... and sheer brilliance would reflect the prestige of imperial Athens: 'All kinds of enterprises should be created which will provide an ...

and what that sculpture meant to the people who made it and looked at it in Athens in the fifth century BC. The Parthenon sculptures set out to present an Athenian universe made up of gods ...