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most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece

She wanted to see it all-the famous châteaux of the Loire Valley, the Parthenon, the Scottish highlands, the Basilica-all the places she'd read about.
Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle

In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthenon, obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Genevieve hill.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
But not the Parthenon, not the frieze of Phidias at any price; and here comes the victoria.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
A white mausoleum, someone's scaled-down version of the Parthenon.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
You ever see the Parthenon, Percy?
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
She sat on her bunk, using one of Daedalus's 3-D-rendering programs to study a model of the Parthenon in Athens.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
In her dream, Piper flew above the Parthenon—the ancient temple of Athena, the left side of its hollow shell encased in metal scaffolding.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
This was neither a Parthenon, nor a temple of the Olympian Jupiter.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Langdon unveiled PHI in the architectural dimensions of the Greek Parthenon, the pyramids of Egypt, and even the United Nations Building in New York.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
He was like a poet in the Parthenon.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
"The Parthenon," I remembered.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
Once, the massive statue had graced the Parthenon in Greece.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
Behind me you can see the biggest temple, the Parthenon, which means 'the Virgin's Place.'
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
The rebuilding of the Acropolis and the construction of the Parthenon were the two best known of Pericles' many ambitious building projects.
Doug Linder -- The Trial of Socrates
The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Directly in front of the car, the Lincoln Memorial rose with rigid austerity, its orthogonal lines reminiscent of Athens's ancient Parthenon.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
A green spot stood in the center of a picture of the Parthenon, suspended over the fireplace.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
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.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
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.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves

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