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OCR: The Parthenon was built by Ictinus and Callicrates between 448-432 B.C. Subsidized by funds supposedly stolen by Pericles from the Delian League, it was built in the Doric style. It's famous pediment sculptures so beautifully done by Phidias were pirated away by Lord Elgin to the British Musuem where they reside today. The interior of the Parthenon contained a a magnificent statue of Athena 40 ft. high, sculpted also by Phidias from gold and ivory. T The Propylaea begun in 437 B.C. by the architect, Mnesicles, was designed as the monumental gate to the acropolis itself. Built entirely of marble like the Parthenon ( quarried from nearby Mt. Pentilikon )it also was of the Doric order, but was never completely finished beacuse of the Peloponnesian Wars. The Erectheum, built in @ 405 B.C. perh ...