The centerpiece of Nashville's Centennial Park is the Parthenon, which was built for the state's Centennial Exposition in 1897 then rebuilt in the 1920s.  It is afull scale replica of the the famous Greek edifice.  The replica is appropriately placed in Nashville, which has been called the "Athens of the South".  With 24 post graduate institutions, Nashville has been compared to the ancient city of learning and its scholarly impacts headed by the first dean, Plato.