Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum ... marbles would add luster to Britain’s imperial image. Taking the long view, he was justified in anticipating the sense ...

“[I realized that] Euripides was talking about what you see in the middle of the Parthenon frieze,” she says ... in London in 1971.Getty Images While there has long been dispute about ...

In early 19th-century London, the arrival of temple artworks taken from the Acropolis of Athens inspired both poetic raptures ...

Jeffrey Hurwit: The Parthenon was the greatest ... I think this is best expressed in the frieze that decorated the top of the cella walls, where there is a long procession of idealized youths ...

But what if its chief ornament, the Parthenon frieze, turned out to be not an embodiment of reason and proportion—of stillness at the heart of motion, quiet piety, and enlightened civic ...

The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports has announced that Italy will return a fragment of the Parthenon Frieze, which has been on loan as part of a cultural exchange. At a November 30 meeting of ...

The director of the Regional Archaeological Museum was handing over, with much fanfare, a small fragment of the Parthenon Frieze to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens in what is supposed to be an ...

For decades, Greek authorities have been arguing for the permanent return of the so-called Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles. These include about half of the surviving ...

Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican Museums to return three Parthenon fragments to Greece ... which include 5th-century B.C. remnants of a 520-foot frieze that once covered the outer walls ...

His companion at the museum, the history painter and diarist Benjamin Haydon, encouraged the British government to purchase from Elgin the portions of the Parthenon frieze that he had acquired ...