<P> Athena Parthenos (Ancient Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ Παρθένος; literally, "Athena the Virgin") is a lost massive chryselephantine (gold and ivory) sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena, made by Phidias and his assistants and housed in the Parthenon in Athens . Despite the dynamic architectural characteristics of the Parthenon, the statue of Athena was designed to be the focal point . Its epithet was an essential character of the goddess herself . A number of replicas and works inspired by it, both ancient and modern, have been made . </P> <P> It was the most renowned cult image of Athens, considered one of the greatest achievements of the most acclaimed sculptor of ancient Greece . Phidias began his work around 447 BC . Lachares removed the gold sheets in 296 BC to pay his troops, and the bronze replacements for them were probably gilded thereafter; it was damaged by a fire about 165 BC but repaired . It continued to stand in the Parthenon in the 5th century AD, when it was removed by the Romans . An account mentions it in Constantinople in the 10th century . </P> <P> The ancient historian Pausanias gave a description of the statue: </P>

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