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The Parthenon was completed in 432 BCE , and served as a temple to the greek goddess Athena, where the people would worship and revernd her. It was also the chief temple of Athens, and was built during the golden age of Greece. It was also a replacement for an older Parthenon known as the Pre-Parthenon, that was destroyed in the events of the Persian invasion of 480 BC. It also was used as a treasury for the Delion League, under the great Athenian leader, Percules, who spent Greek’s wealth on schools, temples, theatres, and statues to name a few Towards the end of the sixth century, it would be used as a Christian church

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