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Karpion

Karpion was an ancient Greek architect and architectural theorist active in the fifth century BC. On the testimony of Vitruvius he and Iktinos co-authored a treatise on the proportions of the Parthenon, the major Periklean Temple of Athena on the Acropolis of Athens.

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