Synonyms for parthenon
ˈpɑr θəˌnɒn, -nənparthenon

Princeton's WordNet

1. Parthenonnoun

   the main temple of the goddess Athena; built on the acropolis in Athens more than 400 years B.C.; example of Doric architecture

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1. Culture Minister Lina Mendoni:

   Motivated by financial gain, publicity and self promotion, Elgin deployed illegal and untoward measures to extract from Greece the Sculptures of the Parthenon and a plethora of other antiquities in a blatant act of serial theft.

2. British Museum:

   The British Museum is a museum of the world, for the world and nothing demonstrates this more than the loan of a Parthenon sculpture to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to celebrate its 250th anniversary.

3. Prokopis Pavlopoulos:

   Let the British Museum come here and make the comparison between this (Acropolis) museum of light and the murky, if I may say, prison of the British Museum where the Parthenon Marbles are held as trophies.

4. Antonis Samaras:

   The Parthenon and its sculptures have been looted. The value of the sculptures is priceless, we Greeks identify with our history and culture, which cannot be fragmented, loaned or bestowed.

5. Antonis Samaras:

   The last, until now, British doctrine that the Parthenon Marbles could not be moved is no longer valid -- as their other 'argument' for the lack of an appropriate space to house them collapsed with the opening of the Museum of Acropolis.