Abstract
In the year 480/479 B.C., the acropolis of Athens was invaded by Persians and valuable treasures were plundered and the temples were destroyed and burned by the enemy. In the year 447 B.C. it was decided to build the Parthenon on the acropolis under the initiative of Perikles, the leading politician of the day. It is well known that Perikles had his own building program at the time of the reconstruction of the Athenian acropolis. When we study about why Propylaia could not have been built symmetrically or why the temple of Athena Nike had to have a peculiar form and others carefully, then we will be able to figure out the idea of “art and environment” of the ancient Greeks. In the following study, I will research why the special proportion of 1.000:0.382 was abandoned in the Periclean period to show an example of the idea of art and environment of the ancient Greeks.
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