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The world of classical Greece must postdate the Temple of Solomon and the Parthenon is the most famous classical monument. The Parthenon appears to break with any simple modeling of the Earth’s size. In brief, it is a rectangular shape with proportions 4 to 9. Wooden temples preceded it, destroyed by fire. The Greeks had a tradition of building a Hekatompedon, a hundred footer. Whilst the shortest side of the Parthenon is indeed one hundred root canonical feet [of 0.01146 (1762/1752) feet], it has an area of 100 by 100 square cubits (cubits and feet being interchangeable) and it is the area that defines it as a Hekatompedon.

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