Benjamin Franklin Wilson

Background

The Parthenon at Athens

The Parthenon at Nashville

Description of the Parthenon

The Architecture of the Parthenon

The Sculptures of the Parthenon

The Ionic and Doric Friezes

The West Pediment

The East Pediment

Conclusion

Transcriber's Notes

Excerpts
from
The Parthenon of Pericles
and Its
Reproduction in America
Illustrated

By
Benjamin Franklin Wilson, III
Director of the Parthenon

Parthenon Press

PARTHENON PRESS
NASHVILLE

THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS, GREECE
And
AT NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
(Excerpts from THE PARTHENON OF PERICLES AND
ITS REPRODUCTION IN AMERICA)
Copyright, MCMXLI
By Benjamin Franklin Wilson III

TO
THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS
1920-1941

R. M. Dudley

M. T. Bryan

Lee J. Loventhal

W. R. Cole

R. T. Creighton

Chas. M. McCabe

Percy Warner

Rogers Caldwell

J. P. W. Brown

Edwin Warner

C. A. Craig

Jas. G. Stahlman

Vernon Tupper

Bascom F. Jones

Whose intelligent and untiring interest made possible the reproduction of the Parthenon at Nashville; in memory of those who are gone, and in appreciation of those who are living, this booklet is gratefully dedicated