ABSTRACT
Sympathetic with both aristocratic and democratic elements, he was a believer in the sovereignty of the people and the role of popular culture. Two of the most talented citizens, Ictinus and Callicrates, were chosen to be the architects of the Parthenon, working under the general supervision of the sculptor Phidias, who provided the pediments, metopes, and friezes, as well as the gold and ivory statue of Athena inside the temple. The temple first became a Byzantine shrine, then a Catholic cathedral, and finally a Turkish mosque. Americans can see templespace in a contemporary setting in their capital, Washington, DC. Another dramatic example of templespace-this time a religious temple for worship-exists on the other coast of America: Robert Schuller's Garden Grove, California, Crystal Cathedral, completed in 1980. The epic poem, the drama, the lyric, the oration, and the dialogue all owe their origins to Greece. .
