Travel
M
aralyn and I toured this
wonder from ancient
Greece, her for the 2nd
time, me for the 1st. The
old song goes, “Thanks for
the memory….The Parthenon and
moments on the Hudson River Line.”
For me, the Parthenon trumps the
centuries we are still not sure how
they did it.”
Hudson River Line any day.
In a guide by Matt Barrett, “Athens
Survival Guide”, he describes the
Parthenon of Athens as “…the most
perfect building built by the world’s
most advanced civilization and even
though we have been studying it for
Athens is the capital of Greece and
its 5 million inhabitants comprise
about half of the country’s
population. Arguably, the city is best
known for the Acropolis, or “upper
93
city.” The Parthenon was originally
one of several buildings of this upper
city. The Athenian Pericles built
these structures in the 5th century
B.C. as a monument to Athens itself,
for its cultural achievements.
The Parthenon itself was completed