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OCR: PAGE 2 The evolution of the temple reached its zenith in the acropolis of 5th century Athens where Pericles undertook the monumental task of rebuilding a temple complex after the whole of the city, including the citadel, had been fired and pulled down by the Persians some fifty years before. Commissioning the architects, Ictinus and Callicrates, and the sculptor, Phidias, Pericles set about adorning the acropolis with some of the most beautiful buildings in the world. The is considered not only the crowning achievement of Pericles' administration and Athen's Golden Age, but is the very fountainhead of all Greek and

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