Athens is, or at least should be, better known for the impressive temples and other archaeological sites that are all around ...

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After three and a half years of leadership at Marshall University, President Brad Smith agreed to extend his employment ...

After studying in Europe, LeQuire was motivated to use his talents "to ennoble and memorialize real people, not emperors, kings and queens or gods and goddesses." Outside Nashville's Parthenon ...

In Lanthimos’ cinematic rendering of “Poor Things”, the cruise ship carrying the protagonists sails from Lisbon to Alexandria, bypassing the Greek capital. As it turns out, Athens would only have ...

Its friezes depict a procession of gods, warriors, and mythical animals; its metopes, single panels within the larger frieze, narrate mythological battles of the Athenians against the Amazonians ...

Christopher Hitchens, among the most eloquent and forceful advocates of rejoining the Parthenon marbles, helped tilt me toward the cause of repatriation. With great timing, Verso Books has just ...

A gargantuan gold-and-ivory statue of the god Zeus—some 40 feet high—dazzled the ancient world when it was built in the 5th century B.C. After standing for 8 centuries, it disappeared, and its ...

A former adviser to the Greek government has told the BBC that a deal that could see the Parthenon Sculptures - also known as the Elgin Marbles - returned to Greece is "close." The Greek Prime ...

Name: Ares Origin: Greek Known as: God of war and the spirit of battle Family: Son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Hera (queen of the gods) Ares embodied the brutal aspects of warfare. He represented ...

Mikon, a Greek man (potentially a shepherd) from the 6 th century BC, may have left us the ultimate clue to an unknown temple that once filled the space now occupied by the great Parthenon. And ...

Egyptian blue appears to have been used on the Parthenon to depict several characteristics. The color represents water, from which Helios, the god of the sun, is shown rising with his chariot.