During the construction of the Parthenon of Acropolis, slaves worked alongside Athenian citizens doing the same work for ...
The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium ... embarked on a long-term project to strengthen interior walls, insert casts of some sculptures removed by Lord Elgin, and re-erect some of ...
On arriving in Athens, the first sight these young tourists would look for was the Acropolis and its crowning glory: the pillared Parthenon, dedicated to the warrior goddess Athena. Yet even as ...
As director of the Acropolis Restoration Project over the past three decades, architect Manolis Korres knows the marble blocks of the Parthenon as well as anyone today. Yet he recognizes that many ...