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They believed that there was a god of love and that there was a god of war and that there was a god of almost everything in the World.

Greece is in two chief parts, like a tiny North and South America, which were once joined by a thin stem of land called the Isthmus of Corinth, only four miles across. In the northern part was, is, and probably always will be a great city called Athens. The people in Athens thought that one goddess in particular looked after their city. She was the goddess of wisdom called Athene Parthenos, so they named their city Athens, after her first name; and on the top of a high hill they built the most beautiful temple in the World to her and called it the Parthenon, after her last name. Inside of this temple they placed a huge statue of her, made of gold and ivory. The statue has now disappeared, nobody knows where, and the building itself was blown up in a war and is now in ruins. The beautiful sculptures on this temple were taken down and carried away to London and are now in the British Museum. So if you want to see what beautiful statues the Greeks once made, don’t go to Athens—go to London. On the side of the hill on which is the Parthenon and all through the city of Athens are other temples to their many gods. These temples had no domes nor spires like Christian churches, but columns around the outside.

The marble for these buildings and statues they got from a hill near Athens called Mount Pentelicus.

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希腊人相信有掌管爱情的神，有主管战争的神，还有主宰世界万物的神。

希腊国土，主要由两部分组成，像微型版的南北美洲。这两部分曾经由被称为“科林斯地峡”的一条狭长陆地相连接，只有4英里宽。在希腊的北部，有一个过去是、现在是、很可能将来也是伟大的城市—雅典。雅典人认为有一位女神特别眷顾他们的城市，她就是智慧女神，叫雅典娜·帕特农，所以就以她的名字来命名他们的城市—雅典；而且，他们还在一座高山上，为了纪念她建造了世界上最美丽的神庙并以她的姓命名为“帕特农神庙”。在神庙内，他们放置了一座她的巨像，是用金子和象牙制作的。但是，现在雕像不在了，没有人知道它在哪里。神庙在一次战争中被炸毁了，现在是一片废墟。后来，神庙上的一些雕刻品被拆下来，运到了伦敦，现在存放在大英博物馆里。所以，如果你想看希腊人刻的美丽雕像，不要去雅典，去伦敦吧。在帕特农神庙的那座山的山坡上，以及整个雅典城，还有纪念众神的其他神庙，这些神庙不同于基督教的教堂，没有圆屋顶，也没有尖塔，但是外侧有圆柱环绕。

建造这些建筑物以及雕像所需的大理石，希腊人是从雅典附近一座名叫“潘泰列克斯山”的山上取来的。