True or False Quiz

• 1. The Parthenon was built between 438 AD and 447 AD.

• 2. The construction of the monument was initiated by Perikles.

• 3. The temple is built in the Doric order and almost exclusively of Pentelic marble.

• 4.The central part of the temple, called the cella, sheltered the famous chryselephantine cult statue of Athena, made by Perikles.

• 5.The Erechtheion was built in ca. 420 B.C. in the Ionic order.

• 6.The Erechtheion has a prostasis on the west side.

• 7.The Temple of Athena Nike was constructed in ca. 420 B.C. by the architect Kallikrates.

• 8.The Acropolis hill, so called the “Hard Rock” of Athens.

• 9. The first excavations on the hill were conducted between 1835 and 1837.

• 10. Some of them were converted into Buddhism churches, houses of the Franks and later on, of the Turks.

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