08-14-2006, 03:15 PM
When I show the Parthenon in Athens for my students, I refer to it as the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary. :wink:
If you think about it, it has every right to that title as much as the Parthenon.
It was a pagan temple from 432 BCE to approximately 390 CE. It was a Christian church after that from then to well after the Ottoman conquest in the 15th C. So it was actually a Christian bldg about 300 years longer than it served as a pagan temple!
Travis
If you think about it, it has every right to that title as much as the Parthenon.
It was a pagan temple from 432 BCE to approximately 390 CE. It was a Christian church after that from then to well after the Ottoman conquest in the 15th C. So it was actually a Christian bldg about 300 years longer than it served as a pagan temple!
Travis
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