Q 01/05

The Parthenon stands in the capital of which modern country?

A) Italy

B) Greece

C) Turkey

D) Cyprus

Answer · why

B) Greece

It crowns the Acropolis of Athens alongside the Propylaea, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike.

Q 02/05

In which year BC did construction of the Parthenon begin?

A) 447

B) 432

C) 404

D) 399

Answer · why

A) 447

The Delian League was at the height of its power, and the building was substantially complete by 432 as the Peloponnesian War loomed.

Q 03/05

Which Athenian statesman initiated the building programme that produced the Parthenon?

A) Solon

B) Themistocles

C) Pericles

D) Cleisthenes

Answer · why

C) Pericles

The project lasted the whole second half of the fifth century and also produced the Propylaea, Erechtheion and Temple of Athena Nike.

Q 04/05

The Parthenon's architects were Callicrates and which other man?

A) Hippodamus

B) Ictinus

C) Polykleitos

D) Mnesicles

Answer · why

B) Ictinus

In their lost treatise they apparently called the building the Hekatompedos, the hundred-footer.

Q 05/05

Which sculptor supervised the Parthenon's construction and its sculptural decoration?

A) Myron

B) Praxiteles

C) Phidias

D) Lysippos

Answer · why

C) Phidias

He also made the colossal gold-and-ivory statue of Athena inside, dedicated in 439 or 438 BC.