parthenon

And while on the matter, I've yet to understand why the Parthenon marbles are still not returned where they belong: in Parthenon.

The Parthenon is still the largest concrete dome without steel reinforcing.

Many things, from the Parthenon to paper sizes, don't have a golden ratio and that doesn't make them less attractive[1].

There's no proof the proportions of Parthenon especially exhibit the golden ratio, neither do the proportions of the human body.

In addition, he removed about 80 meters of the Parthenon frieze; the 50 meters that were left are also still extant.

Fwiw the remaining sculptures in Greece aren't left outdoors at the actual Parthenon site either, in order to protect them from damage (though they are nearby).

We're not talking painting the Guggenheim or the Parthenon here.

I believe the Pantheon dome was, not sure about the Parthenon though.

This idea that Silicon Valley is full of engineers toiling in a Parthenon of virtue while evil people in Washington misuse the fruits of their creations is utter bunk.

As to the Parthenon marbles, yeah, I agree with you.

[1], [2], [3] To answer your question straight, the reason the return of the Parthenon marbles matters, is morality.

To protect them, the remaining 5 caryatids were moved indoors in 1979 (replaced by replicas), and the last 20-meter segment of frieze remaining on the Parthenon was moved indoors in 1993.

On the acropolis itself, the Erechtheion has replica caryatids, while the Parthenon is "bare" with no frieze or pediment.

Many are the amateurs who have superimposed golden rectangles all over images of the Parthenon, claiming to have found a match.

I still imagine Socrates wandering among white stone buildings and people leading processions to a white stone Parthenon.

Parthenon statues, Nibelungen or Warhol’s Death and Disaster -series are essentially meaningless without the meaning and value we give them.