CULTURE

Masterpieces of sculpture, such as “Aristodikos”, the “Kritios Boy”, the “Nike of Paionios”, the “Hermes of Olympia”, the “Aphrodite of Melos” etc., and of architecture, such as “Treasure of the Sifnians”, “pediments of the Peisistratian Temple” on the Acropolis, “pediments of the Temple of Zeus” in Olympia, “frieze of the Mausoleum of Alikarnassos” etc., were created using Parian marble which decisively shaped the art of ancient Greece and contributed to its spread to the West.