It’s hard not to be awestruck standing in front of the Parthenon marbles. The collection of sculptures adorned the famous archeological site, which was originally built as a temple to Athena in ...
The Parthenon’s base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior wall of ...
Students use a viewing guide while watching a program about the reconstruction of the Parthenon and discuss answers to questions related to the monument after watching. Built as a temple for the ...
The hills around Vari, 10 miles southeast of Athens, are etched with the musings of bored shepherds. The more than 2,000 graffiti (and counting) feature trireme warships, speeding horses, packs of ...
For the first time in two centuries, visitors to Athens are being treated to a rare sight: the Parthenon, Greece’s most iconic structure, completely free of scaffolding, but not for long. Since the ...
1. The Nashville Parthenon is a full-scale replica of the ancient Parthenon when it was a pagan temple to Athena in the 5th century BCE. It was constructed as a temporary building as Nashville's ...
Frederic Edwin Church’s 1871 painting, The Parthenon. The temple had already suffered damage from earthquake, bombing and occupation before Lord Elgin’s arrival in 1801 Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of ...
Much of the sculpture that once enhanced the Parthenon in Athens was brought to London by Lord Elgin 200 years ago. Was this the act of a saviour or a vandal? Mary Beard looks at both sides of a ...
Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, ...
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