The
Parthenon at
Athens.
Also [sc. attested is] Hundred-footer:
Lycurgus [sc. calls it so].[1] The
Parthenon used to be called Hekatompedos by some because of beauty and graceful proportions, not because of size.[2]
[1] i.e. the adjective alone (with a neuter noun, probably hieron, understood);
Lycurgus fr. 3 Conomis.
[2] This polemical (and counter-intuitive) point of view is not much more palatable in Harpokration s.v., where it is credited to "Menekles or Kallikrates in the (treatise) Concerning
Athens" (FGrH 370 F3). But note in any case the existence of hekatompedon temples in e.g.
Samos and elsewhere, characteristically as those of the patron deity of the city in question.
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