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THE  DORIC  STYLE

In the Doric style, the frieze is ornamented with sculptures , alternatively triglyphs (3 vertical flutes) and metopes (rectangular sculptured frames). Originally, there used to be 92 metopes. Today, most of them have been mutilated or are unrecognisable; others have been plundered ( 15 of them by Lord Elgin). This frieze represents the fight between the gods and the giants, on the East side; the fight between the Lapiths and the Centaurs on the South side; scenes of the Trojan war on the North side and the fight of the Greeks against the Amazons on the West side (here).