Doric Columns of the Parthenon

"For Dorus, the son of Hellen, and the Nymph Orseis, reigned over the whole of Achaia and Peloponnesus, and built at Argos, an ancient city, on a spot sacred to Juno, a temple, which happened to be of this [sc. Doric] order."
-Vitruvius IV

Today, almost two and a half millennia after the completion of that most perfect Doric structure, the Parthenon, one particular element of classical architecture continues to transform many ordinary structures and office buildings into impressive monuments: the column.