sculpture on almost every place on the building you could possibly fit it. Not all the Athenians at the time were as impressed with this as we are. Some claimed that it was all too extravagant, part of a project to dress up Athens like a whore. Others joked about the families of mice that made their homes up the skirts of statues like the Athena Parthenos (whose gold and ivory construction was not solid, but built around a frame much like that under the clothing of the Virgin Mary in Seville).
