It is a steep climb up to the entrance of the Acropolis, which dates to 438 B.C. and embraces the Parthenon and other temples to the Greek gods.

We can only imagine how glorious the Parthenon must have appeared in the middle of the fifth century B.C., ... And on the inside, there was a representation of the gods fighting the giants.

Today, the Parthenon is a broken-down rectangle of grand marble columns, and its interior is largely vacant. But when the temple was constructed between 447 and 438 B.C.E., designed in part by the ...

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A marble frieze from the Parthenon, now displayed in the British Museum, depicts a procession of gods and mortals. (Image credit: Mark Higgins Shutterstock) The marbles in London were removed from ...

The world’s only exact replica of the Parthenon sits in Nashville. ... for a Titan—a whole team of them in fact—but a few miles away stands a replica of a structure once built for a god. ...

These spectacular sculptures — which depict Greek gods, heroes and animals — are now on display at the British Museum in London. Related: 20 of the most mysterious shipwrecks ever You may like ...

When the Victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema first showed his work, Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends, there must have been a pleasing circularity in play: a painter ...

I vowed to see the Parthenon on this, my fourth visit to Athens, and my friend Cathy and I arrived a few days before our cruise and booked a tour of the Acropolis, on one of the highest hills of th… ...