Why are the Parthenon columns not straight?

Why there are no straight lines in the Parthenon? In order for the temple to maintain a symmetrical and light appearance, straight lines weren't the best. The Greeks resorted to the Entasis, which is a very light curve voluntarily made on the central part of the shafts of the columns.



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Some 80% of the original Parthenon frieze, sculpted in the fifteenth century, between 443 and 438 BC, remains intact, but much of it resides outside Greece. The Parthenon sat abandoned after a series of military attacks and raids during the 1800s.

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