South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium before Greece fell to the Christian Byzantines, who promptly enacted a series of decrees outlawing pagan worship. The Byzantines converted the ...

The British pop icon emphatically supports the return of the Acropolis sculptures taken by Lord Elgin, urging Britain to ...

"But I think there is a better sense of understanding that maybe a win-win solution can be found that will result in a reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures in Greece, while at the same time ...

After conservative UK leaders refused to send Parthenon fragments home to Greece, a new government has ushered 'constructive' negotiations over a return. https://p.dw ...

Since the 15th century, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a ...

The Elgin Marbles currently reside in the British Museum, but the Greek government has long called for them to be returned.

In the following interview, he also dispels some long-held notions about ancient Greece's most legendary building. NOVA: What is the Parthenon's legacy for western civilization? Jeffrey Hurwit ...

During the Great Turkish War in the late 17th century—when the Ottoman Empire was battling several European countries—Greece was an occupied nation. The Turks turned the Parthenon into an ...

Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...