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Parthenon, temple that dominates the hill of the Acropolis at Athens. It was built in the mid-5th century BCE and dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena Parthenos . The temple is generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order, the simplest of the three Classical Greek architectural orders.