Since the 15th century, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a ...
The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium before Greece fell to the Christian Byzantines, who promptly enacted a series of decrees outlawing pagan worship. The Byzantines converted the ...
This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly ... The sculpture also represents Greece's struggle to resist being absorbed into the Persian Empire. The Greeks had a ...
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