# Work begins on the Parthenon as a public temple on the Acropolis

Date: 447

## The fact

In 447 BCE work began on the Parthenon. The dated temple-start is not the allied-tribute funding row and not the Funeral Oration as later Thucydides. [Pericles](/people/pericles)’s documented role is: He backed a new Athena temple with Ictinus, Callicrates, and Phidias. Do not twin this with per-building-tribute. Tribute extraction is the cost path; the temple fabric is this instrument. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Pericles's documented role is: He backed a new Athena temple with Ictinus, Callicrates, and Phidias.

## Context

Ictinus, Callicrates, Phidias, unnamed masons, and a burned-temple predecessor already sit in the file. A temple is not unique authorship of Athena. Later Elgin is not 447. Named others on the file: Ictinus, Callicrates, Phidias, and unnamed masons share the fabric. The public setting is the file around -0447-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Work begins on the Parthenon as a public temple on the Acropolis. The setting of Work begins on the Parthenon as a public temple on the Acropolis is the public file around -0447-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica independently dates the Parthenon start as a public temple distinct from the tribute-cost row. Official: Britannica — Pericles, Parthenon (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Britannica — Parthenon, Athens (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Parthenon; Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Pericles, Parthenon (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Parthenon, Athens (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Parthenon; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Pericles, Parthenon (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving social-cohesion path: a public civic temple. Complex shared architects. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated public temple put a civic cult-and-sculpture programme onto the Acropolis, distinct from the tribute-funding cost path. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with per-building-tribute. Tribute extraction is the cost path; the temple fabric is this instrument. Mixed effects of Work begins on the Parthenon as a public temple on the Acropolis are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 447 Parthenon start. Established: a sourced public record of Work begins on the Parthenon as a public temple on the Acropolis under -0447-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Work begins on the Parthenon as a public temple on the Acropolis under -0447-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Work begins on the Parthenon as a public temple on the Acropolis. Naming Pericles does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0447-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Pericles: https://factrail.ai/people/pericles

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Parthenon
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/per-parthenon-447