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A 42-foot statue of Athena by Nashville sculptor Alan LeQuire, unveiled in 1990 and gilded and painted in 2002, inside the full-scale Parthenon replica in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee.
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Athena Parthenos
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Site-level location · 36.1495° N, 86.8133° W
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The story
Inside a full-size concrete copy of the Parthenon, a 42-foot goddess looks down on visitors, and she took far longer to arrive than the building around her.
Nashville's Parthenon began as a temporary building for the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, a copy of the Athenian temple built when the city was calling itself the "Athens of the South." It was rebuilt in permanent materials and opened as a city museum on 20 May 1931. The museum describes it as the world's only exact-size and detail replica of the original temple. When the doors opened, the great statue of Athena and the exterior Ionic frieze were still missing.
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Inside the Parthenon museum building in Centennial Park. The museum lists hours of 9am to 4.30pm Monday to Saturday and 12.30pm to 4.30pm Sunday; adults $15, seniors (62+) and youth (4-17) $10, under 4 free, bought on site (museum site, 2026).
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Enter through the Nashville Parthenon museum in Centennial Park, Nashville. Admission is bought on site at the ticket counter or museum store; check the museum's current hours and special-hours notices.
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