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The Parthenon in Nashville's Centennial Park is a full-scale copy of the original Greek Parthenon; it was initially built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of plaster, wood, and brick. In 1920 the Parthenon was rebuilt on the same foundations, in concrete, in a project that was completed in 1925; the interior was completed in 1931. Greek Parthenon, Parthenon Nashville, Wood And Brick, Greece Architecture, Egypt Architecture, Classical Studies, Athens Hotel, Architectural Orders, Doric Column

The Parthenon in Nashville's Centennial Park is a full-scale copy of the original Greek Parthenon; it was initially built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of plaster, wood, and brick. In 1920 the Parthenon was rebuilt on the same foundations, in concrete, in a project that was completed in 1925; the interior was completed in 1931.

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The Doric order is the earliest of the classical orders developed by Archaic Greek civilization and was by far the most popular of the three. The eponymous Dorians were the dominant tribe of the four main peoples forming ancient Greece and the Dorian dialect was spoken in a great southward arc stretching across the Aegean from Corfu to the lower Peloponnesian Peninsula and on to the islands of Crete and Rhodes. (Above, the Hephaisteion or Theseion, a remarkably preserved Doric temple located…

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