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OCR: PAGE 3 perhaps all Western art! Dedicated to the goddess Athena in thanksgiving for Greece's victory over the totalitarian Persian empire, the Is the perfect embodiment of Classical Doric architecture creating an impression of purity, balance, and grace. It must be remembered that the Greek temple was designed primarily to be seen; it is less about mass and enclosure (the Greeks worshipped outside of them) than about light filled space. In fact, the architects went to great pains to create certain refinements based on optical illusion manufacturing a visual impression of the temple in a state of vibrating

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