Athens says they were removed illegally and wants them returned so they can be displayed alongside the rest of the Parthenon sculptures at a purpose-built museum in Athens. Relations between ...
Discussions between Greece and the British Museum about the fate of the Parthenon Marbles are gaining momentum, with Greek ...
Will the new Labour government help Greece secure the return of the Parthenon marbles, held at the British Museum since 1816?
"Positive" talks between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles have rekindled hope that the ancient ...
UK officials hinted Tuesday that a deal was in the works with Greece to end a decades-long dispute over the highly contested ...
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Best Things To Do in Athens, Greece
In this video, we’ll uncover the Best Things To Do in Athens Greece. Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece, and one of the oldest cities in the world, with a recorded history spanning over ...
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 ...
Greece’s prime minister is in London on for his first top-level U.K. meeting since a spat last year over the contested ...
Athens says they were removed illegally and wants them returned so they can be displayed alongside the rest of the Parthenon sculptures at a purpose-built museum in Athens. Relations between ...
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 ...
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 ...
The British Museum notes that smaller Parthenon frieze collections and fragments are also in the Louvre and museums in Copenhagen, Munich, Vienna and Wurzburg. Athens has for decades demanded the ...