In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

Athens sprawls across the Attica Basin, a valley surrounded on ... As the most famous part of the city, the Acropolis refers to the hill in the center of the city upon which Athens' most renowned ...

Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...

Just a stone’s throw from the Acropolis, this world-renowned ... at Sounion Located about an hour from Athens at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula, the Temple of Poseidon is perched ...

The Acropolis of Athens, an emblematic treasure of ancient ... on the southern coast of Attica in Greece, the Temple of Poseidon is an archaeological site of profound significance and striking ...

The colossal gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena, in the Parthenon on the Acropolis ... were usually only issued in an emergency. Athens, in Attica (a province of central Greece) is ...

When Pisistratus became tyrant of Athens in 547 BC it marked a change of direction for city-state and the surrounding land of Attica ... and new temples on the Acropolis. Eager to glorify the ...

Once the Spartan force at Thermopylae had been defeated, his route by land to Athens was virtually undefended. Attica was seized ... thorn bushes surrounding the Acropolis. Themistocles had ...