located high up on top of the Parthenon. One pediment is located on the east side of the building and another on the west. The sculptures on the east pediment tell the tale of the birth of the ...

FILE - Women stand by a marble statue of a naked youth thought to represent Greek god Dionysos, center, from the east pediment of the Parthenon, on display during a media photo opportunity to ...

Trustees of the British Museum Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the Parthenon at the British Museum. In the 19th Century, the British Ambassador Lord Elgin was granted ...

In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens ... 92 metopes—28 facing the east and west, and 64 split evenly ...

the extent of the damage to the Parthenon’s east pediment and the north and south friezes by 5th-6th-century Christians building their church within it, their defacement of the metopes (carved ...

Visitors look at the marble statues from the east pediment of the Parthenon, on display at the British Museum in London, Jan. 8, 2015. Greece is renewing a bid to seek the return of ancient ...

Without surrounding buildings for scale, it can be hard to understand the monumental proportions, until you enter the Naos, the east ... original Parthenon marbles that embellish its pediment ...

The classical marble statues were made between 447BC and 432BC to decorate the temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis in Athens. Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the ...