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 ...

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 ...

The Acropolis Restoration Project team faced a monumental puzzle—thousands of fragments from the Parthenon scattered across the Acropolis and others that had to be recreated because they were ...

With a name like “The Parthenon,” you might expect a space with some marble columns, a sculpture perhaps—just a faint whiff of antiquity. Instead, this Union Square Greek restaurant feels ...

Melina Mercouri loved Greece so much that she epitomized the Hellenic spirit, becoming its ambassador worldwide.

A New Relic of the Parthenon Gables THE extant sculptures of the Pathenon, which the current opinion erroneously attributes to the great Pheidias, are distributed in four principal groups.

During his tenure, he played a key role in revitalising Greece's campaign to reclaim the 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures, often referred to as the Elgin Marbles, from the British Museum.

This identity is reinforced with the Parthenon, a full-scale replica of the one found in Athens. Although Nashville's Parthenon was only meant to be temporary – it was built for the Tennessee ...