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As dawn breaks over Athens, Pheidias is already late for work.
雅典黎明时分，菲迪亚斯上班已经迟到了。
The year is 432 BCE, and he's the architekton, or chief builder, for the Parthenon -- Athens' newest and largest temple.
现在是公元前432年，菲迪亚斯是帕特农神庙--雅典最新最大的一座神庙的首席建筑师。
When completed, his masterpiece will be an enormous shrine to the goddess Athena, and a testament to the glory of the Athenians.
完成之时，他的杰作将成为雅典娜女神的圣殿，也是雅典人荣耀的见证。
But when he arrives onsite he finds five epistatai, or city officials, waiting to confront him.
但当他来到建筑工地时，等待他的是5位城管。
They accuse Pheidias of embezzling gold designated for the temple's sacred central statue.
他们指控菲迪亚斯盗用了那些本要用来建造神庙中央雕像的黄金。
He has until sundown to provide all the temple's expenses and account for every flake of gold -- or face the judgement of the courts.
在太阳下山之前，他必须拿出整个建筑工程以及每一片黄金用途的开销明细--否则他将面对法庭的审判。
Though he's insulted by these false charges, Pheidias isn't surprised.
虽然菲迪亚斯觉得被诬告侮辱，但这完全在他意料之中。
Pericles, the politician who commissioned the Parthenon, has many enemies in city government, and this project is somewhat controversial.
伯里克利，负责建造神庙的政治家，在政府当中有许多敌人，这个项目本身也备受争议。
The public is expecting a classic temple in the Doric style: simple columns supporting a horizontal entablature, crowned with a triangular roof.
百姓们希望看到一座多立克式的古典神庙：简单的圆柱支撑着楣构，顶部有着三角形的屋顶。
But Pheidias' plans are far more radical by Athenian standards.
但菲迪亚斯的计划在雅典人眼中是相当极端的。
His designs combine Doric columns with a sweeping Ionic frieze, hosting a vast panorama of the city's Great Panathenaic festival.
他的设计结合了多立克柱式和爱奥尼式的雕带，展示着泛雅典娜节当日城市的风景。
Not only will this sculpture show humans and gods side by side -- something never before seen in a temple's décor
这座雕像不仅将人与神并肩展示--这在以前的神庙装饰中从未出现过，
it will also cost much more than the traditional approach.
它的成本也比传统神庙高出不少。
Praying to the Gods that his colleagues have been keeping track of their spending, Pheidias sets off to prove his innocence.
向神明祈祷希望同事一直都有记录花费之后，菲迪亚斯出发去证明他的清白。
First, he checks in with his architects Iktinos and Callicrates.
首先，他找到了建筑师们，伊克提诺斯和卡拉克拉特。
Rather than using a blueprint, they pore over the syngraphai, or general plan, and paradeigma, a 3D model.
他们没有使用蓝图，而是仔细研究了总体规划书以及建筑的3D模型。
Without an exact blueprint, the team often has to resolve issues in real time, guided only by careful calculation and their instinct for symmetry.
因为没有明确的蓝图，团队只能依靠精细的计算以及对于对称性的直觉，一边建造一边解决问题。
Maintaining this symmetry has proven especially difficult. The Parthenon is built on a curve with the columns leaning slightly inwards.
事实证明，维持这种对称性是非常困难的。帕特农神庙建造在弧面上，柱子稍微向内弯曲。
To project strength, and potentially keep the columns looking straight from a distance, the architects incorporated entasis, or slight bulging, in each column.
为了结构稳固，以及确保圆柱从远处看起来是直的，建筑师们在每一根圆柱上都添加了轻微的凸起。
For the temple's other elements, the team calculates symmetry by employing relatively consistent proportions across the design.
而对于神庙的其他元素，团队通过设计中比较一致的比例来计算对称性。
But their shifting plans require constant recalculations.
但他们不断变更的计划需要经常重新计算。
After helping solve one such computation, Pheidias collects his colleagues' gold records and heads off to receive a special delivery.
在完成了一个这样的计算后，菲迪亚斯从同事那里拿到了黄金消费的记录，然后出发去收取一件特殊的货物。
Immense marble blocks for the Parthenon's pediment have just arrived from quarries at Mount Pentelikon.
神庙三角形楣饰需要的巨型大理石刚从潘特利康山的采石场运来。
The usual ramps would collapse under the weight of these 2 to 3 ton stone blocks, so Pheidias orders the construction of new pulleys.
普通的坡道会在这些2到3吨重的石块的重压下倒塌，所以菲迪亚斯下令建造新的滑轮。
After recording the additional expense and supervising the construction all afternoon, he finally arrives at the sculpture workshop.
在记录下额外的费用并监督了整个下午的施工后，菲迪亚斯终于来到雕像的工作坊。
His sculptors are carving 92 mythical scenes, or metopes, to decorate the temple.
他的雕塑家们正在雕刻92个用来装饰神庙的神话场景。
Every carving depicts fighting from different epic battles -- each a mythical representation of Greece's victory over Persia about 40 years earlier.
每一个雕刻都讲述了不同的史诗级战斗场面--描绘着希腊40年前战胜波斯的场景。
No temple has ever used so many metopes before, and each scene adds to the temple's ballooning expenses.
从来没有神庙使用过这么多神话场景，每一个都让神庙的费用大增。
Finally, Pheidias turns to his primary responsibility, and the focal point of the entire temple.
最后，菲迪亚斯回到他的首要责任，也是整座神庙的焦点。
Covered in thick layers of gold, minutely decorated, and towering above her worshippers, this will be a statue of the city's patron and protector: Athena Parthenos.
覆盖了层层黄金、装饰精心、高高耸立在崇拜者之上的雅典的守护者与保护者：处女雅典娜。
When the temple is complete, throngs will gather on its perimeter -- offering prayers, performing sacrifices, and pouring libations for the goddess of wisdom.
神庙完成之时，大批人潮将聚集此地向这位智慧女神祷告、献祭、奠酒。
Pheidias spends the rest of the day designing finishing touches for the statue, and as the light fades, the epistatai arrive to confront him.
菲迪亚斯用剩下的时间来设计雕像的收尾工作，当光线逐渐暗淡时，圣公会已经赶来，准备与他对质。
After looming over his records, they look up triumphantly.
看到他的记录后，他们得意洋洋地望向他。
Pheidias may have accounted for the temple's general spending, but his records show no mention of the statue's gold.
菲迪亚斯虽然记载了神庙的总体开销，但他的记录里并没有提到建造雕像使用的黄金。
At that moment, Pericles himself arrives to save his chief builder.
这时，伯里克利亲自前来解救自己的首席建筑师。
The temple's sponsor tells them that all the gold on the statue can be removed and weighed individually to prove Pheidias' innocence.
伯里克利告诉他们，雕像上的黄金可以可以被全部移除并一一称重，由此证明菲迪亚斯的清白。
Assigning laborers to the task -- and charging the officials to watch them late into the night
在分配完执行这项任务的工人以及看官他们的官员后，
Pheidias and his patron leave their adversaries to the mercy of mighty Athena.
菲迪亚斯和他的恩人将他们的对手交到了雅典娜女神的手下。
