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Parthenon
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  • He was like a poet in the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • A white mausoleum, someone's scaled-down version of the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • The rebuilding of the Acropolis and the construction of the Parthenon were the two best known of Pericles' many ambitious building projects.†   (source)
  • Soon it will look like the Colosseum in Rome and the Parthenon in Athens.†   (source)
  • Once, the massive statue had graced the Parthenon in Greece.†   (source)
  • We are going around the Parthenon and down through the gateway …†   (source)
  • I barely had time to master its major scales before Zeus zapped me at the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • This is a model of the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • The Argo II was still aloft, barely, moored to the top of the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • After that …. well, we can't simply restore it to the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • How does a forty-foot-tall statue in the middle of the Parthenon just disappear?†   (source)
  • In the Parthenon, the giants roared in triumph.†   (source)
  • All her life, she had wanted to visit the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • If we spill your blood under the Parthenon, that will be sufficient to complete her awakening.†   (source)
  • "Also," Percy said, "Gaea wants us to reach the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • It stood in the middle of the Parthenon in Athens.†   (source)
  • Whatever happens when we return to the Parthenon, know that I do not hold you accountable.†   (source)
  • A wall of Greek fire roared upward all around the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • An uncomfortable silence settled over the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • The Parthenon should be catty-corner to the southeast.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the crowd at the Parthenon grew larger.†   (source)
  • There may be older temples, but this Parthenon holds their memory best.†   (source)
  • The fighting ranged all over the Parthenon and spilled across the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • Directly in front of the car, the Lincoln Memorial rose with rigid austerity, its orthogonal lines reminiscent of Athens's ancient Parthenon.†   (source)
  • The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.†   (source)
  • Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan?†   (source)
  • Looking west, Langdon's eyes traced the long rectangle of the reflecting pool to the Lincoln Memorial, its classical Greek architecture inspired by the Parthenon in Athens, Temple to Athena—goddess of heroic undertakings.†   (source)
  • This was a girl, after all, who had made Parthenon models out of runestones when she was six years old.†   (source)
  • "The Parthenon," I remembered.†   (source)
  • In her dream, Piper flew above the Parthenon—the ancient temple of Athena, the left side of its hollow shell encased in metal scaffolding.†   (source)
  • She sat on her bunk, using one of Daedalus's 3-D-rendering programs to study a model of the Parthenon in Athens.†   (source)
  • Annabeth had told him that in each generation, a few children of Athena were sent on the quest to recover the missing Parthenon statue.†   (source)
  • She stared at the model of the Parthenon on her computer screen and thought about the argument with Athena.†   (source)
  • Annabeth could imagine being an Ancient Greek, walking into the Parthenon and seeing this massive goddess with her shield, spear, and python, her free hand holding out Nike, the winged spirit of victory.†   (source)
  • The mafia giant ran toward the Parthenon and stumbled inside, flattening several Earthborn under his feet.†   (source)
  • She looked at the ground and noticed bits of gravel trembling, skittering southeast, as if pulled toward the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • In the last second, before the gods reached the Parthenon, they seemed to displace themselves, like they'd jumped through hyperspace.†   (source)
  • Piper had heard that each giant was born to oppose a particular god, but there were way more than twelve giants gathered in the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • Poseidon's trident morphed into a fire hose, and the god sprayed the giants out of the Parthenon with a high-powered blast in the shape of wild horses.†   (source)
  • Monsters were everywhere—hundreds of ogres, Earth-born, and Cyclopes milling through the ruins—but most of them were gathered at the Parthenon, watching the ceremony in progress.†   (source)
  • A green spot stood in the center of a picture of the Parthenon, suspended over the fireplace.†   (source)
  • The Parthenon did not serve the same purpose as its wooden ancestor.†   (source)
  • The men who designed the Parthenon, the Gothic cathedrals, the first skyscrapers.†   (source)
  • He pointed to the picture of the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • An airline terminal does not serve the same purpose as the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • "That," said the Dean, "is the Parthenon."†   (source)
  • They will drive me in October to take refuge in one of the universities, where I shall become a don; and go with schoolmasters to Greece; and lecture on the ruins of the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • We might have been exploring or writing; mooning about the venerable places of the earth; sitting contemplative on the steps of the Parthenon, or going at ten to an office and coming home comfortably at half-past four to write a little poetry.†   (source)
  • It's the Parthenon!" said the Dean.†   (source)
  • The sketch represented a house in the shape of a grain silo incredibly merged with the simplified, emaciated shadow of the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • With the latest news of the casting of I'll Take a Sailor and the shooting of Wives for Sale, came stories about the Parthenon and the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • He had time to note a genuine Roman statue in a corner, sepia photographs of the Parthenon, of Rheims Cathedral, of Versailles and of the Frink National Bank Building with the eternal torch.†   (source)
  • The museum building, Keating pointed out proudly, was to be decidedly different: it was not a reproduction of the Parthenon, but of the Maison Carrée at N�®mes.†   (source)
  • Then he whirled around to his drawing of the Cosmo-Slotnick Building, that hung on the wall between a huge photograph of the Parthenon and one of the Louvre.†   (source)
  • Other men, of whom there were greater numbers, the men who had been safe in copying the Parthenon, saw the danger and found a way to security: to walk Cameron's path and make it lead them to a new Parthenon, an easier Parthenon in the shape of a packing crate of glass and concrete.†   (source)
  • The Parthenon has usurped the recognition which—and isn't that usually the case? the bigger and stronger appropriating all the glory, while the beauty of the unprepossessing goes unsung—which should have been awarded to that magnificent little creation of the great free spirit of Greece.†   (source)
  • But not the Parthenon, not the frieze of Phidias at any price; and here comes the victoria.†   (source)
  • This was neither a Parthenon, nor a temple of the Olympian Jupiter.†   (source)
  • That Titan of art piled the Pantheon on the Parthenon, and made Saint-Peter's at Rome.†   (source)
  • It is still the Pantheon on the Parthenon: Saint-Peter's of Rome.†   (source)
  • The Bible resembles the Pyramids; the Iliad, the Parthenon; Homer, Phidias.†   (source)
  • As always when he passed the Parthenon Shoe Shine Parlor, a one-story hut which beside the granite and red-brick ponderousness of the old California Building resembled a bath-house under a cliff, he commented, "Gosh, ought to get my shoes shined this afternoon.†   (source)
  • He went up to seize her hand, and found she was clammy as a marine deity, and that her clothes clung to her like the robes upon the figures in the Parthenon frieze.†   (source)
  • Since he had been at Lynn's he had often gone there and sat in front of the groups from the Parthenon; and, not deliberately thinking, had allowed their divine masses to rest his troubled soul.†   (source)
  • …stretching over the earth; in these ruins you could still detect the solid proportions of a sort of Tuscan architecture; farther off, the remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here, the caked heights of an acropolis along with the fluid forms of a Parthenon; there, the remnants of a wharf, as if some bygone port had long ago harbored merchant vessels and triple–tiered war galleys on the shores of some lost ocean; still farther off, long rows of collapsing walls, deserted thoroughfares, a…†   (source)
  • A woman's arm touched the soul of a great sculptor two thousand years ago, so that he wrought an image of it for the Parthenon which moves us still as it clasps lovingly the timeworn marble of a headless trunk.†   (source)
  • In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthenon, obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Genevieve hill.†   (source)
  • Paris has a capital, the Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; and it replaces the Gemoniae by ridicule.†   (source)
  • , in the Pantheon: Saint Peter of Rome, badly copied (the edifice is awkwardly heaped together, which has not amended its lines);—the Paris of the Republic, in the School of Medicine: a poor Greek and Roman taste, which resembles the Coliseum or the Parthenon as the constitution of the year III.†   (source)
  • The centuries, the revolutions, which at least devastate with impartiality and grandeur, have been joined by a cloud of school architects, licensed, sworn, and bound by oath; defacing with the discernment and choice of bad taste, substituting the ~chicorées~ of Louis XV. for the Gothic lace, for the greater glory of the Parthenon.†   (source)
  • …Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing Lane, London, E. C., 5 Dame street, Dublin), Jerusalem, the holy city (with mosque of Omar and gate of Damascus, goal of aspiration), the straits of Gibraltar (the unique birthplace of Marion Tweedy), the Parthenon (containing statues of nude Grecian divinities), the Wall street money market (which controlled international finance), the Plaza de Toros at La Linea, Spain (where O'Hara of the Camerons had slain the bull), Niagara (over which no human…†   (source)
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