And the great statue of Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon ... In fact, entasis is the Greek word for tension or swelling. The kinds of optical refinements that we detect in the architecture ...

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

Stiftung Archäologie, Munich The partial color reconstruction of Athena is based on a c.490 B.C. sculpture of the Goddess from the pediment of the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina.

The famed statue of Athena had already been removed ... It occurred during the War for Independence, the Greek struggle to gain freedom from the Ottoman Empire. Archeologists estimate that ...

A colossal Athena once presided over the Acropolis ... Yet traces of pigment on Greek marble sculpture show that these sites ...

Built between 447 BC and 432 BC, this ancient Greek temple was dedicated to Athena, the patron goddess of Athens. While the original statue of Athena Parthenos has been lost, the Parthenon remains ...

It’s been a day packed with sightseeing and lessons in Greek history. Led by our Greek guide, Nanda, we walked to the ...

For most western Europeans it was the first time they had ever been able to look closely at Greek sculpture ... was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos, meaning Athena the Virgin.