The Parthenon was part of an ambitious building campaign on the Acropolis that began around 450 b.c. A generation before, the Athenians, as part of an alliance of Greek city-states, had led heroic ...

In 1687, when Venetian forces that were part of a Holy League against the Ottoman Empire raided Athens, the Ottomans converted the Parthenon into an ammunition store as well as a shelter for women ...

Many significant ancient Greek temples are found not only in Greece but also in other countries that were once part of the ...

So the Parthenon was an attempt on the part of Pericles and Athens to assert the city's cultural, political, and military dominance over the rest of Greece and the Aegean. Pericles called Athens ...

Having won the favor of the governor of Athens, Lusieri and his men dismantled a large part of the frieze from the Parthenon as well as numerous capitals and metopes. Finally in 1803, the huge ...

We are far from announcements or a final deal." If the deal goes through, the Parthenon Marbles could be on display part time at the Acropolis museum. February 2023: Is a "new arrangement" sharing ...

The Fagan Fragment, a piece of the eastern frieze of the Parthenon, was part of the archaeological collection of the former British consul Robert Fagan. Its return to Greece was made possible ...

The Elgin Marbles, originally part of Parthenon and Acropolis of Athens. On display in the British Museum in Duveen Gallery. East Pediment depicts the birth of Athena. (photo credit: EWY Media.