"Positive" talks between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles have rekindled hope that the ancient ...
Greece’s prime minister is in London on for his first top-level U.K. meeting since a spat last year over the contested ...
Will the new Labour government help Greece secure the return of the Parthenon marbles, held at the British Museum since 1816?
On arriving in Athens, the first sight these young tourists would look for was the Acropolis and its crowning glory: the pillared Parthenon, dedicated to the warrior goddess Athena. Yet even as ...
Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...
If you're staying in the city center of Athens, the Acropolis may be within ... visit the official website. Acropolis and Parthenon Guided Walking Tour (2660 reviews) ...
The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is one ... or priestesses. Erechtheion, Athens, Greece(Jason Urbanus) There is, however, according to van Rookhuijzen, another building on the Acropolis ...
So the Parthenon was an attempt on the part of Pericles and Athens to assert the city's cultural, political, and military dominance over the rest of Greece and the Aegean. Pericles called Athens ...
Still, the city is also known as the "Athens of the South" thanks to the numerous higher education institutions established there. This identity is reinforced with the Parthenon, a full-scale ...
Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in ...