Why are the Parthenon columns not straight?
Why are the Parthenon columns not straight? Why there are no straight lines in the Parthenon? In order for the temple to maintain a symmetrical and light appearance, straight lines weren't the best. The Greeks resorted to the Entasis, which is a very light curve voluntarily made on the central part of the shafts of the columns.
How much of the Parthenon is original?
Some 80% of the original Parthenon frieze, sculpted in the fifteenth century, between 443 and 438 BC, remains intact, but much of it resides outside Greece. The Parthenon sat abandoned after a series of military attacks and raids during the 1800s.