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Columns at the Parthenon. The supreme achievement of the Greeks was their claim that everything - from the human body to the entire cosmos - was governed by an order accessible to human reason. That claim has been the basis for western civilization ever since. The Temple of Athena Parthenos, the Parthenon, now a ruin lying atop the Acropolis of Athens, is the testament in stone to that claim. (more)

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