Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...

With a name like “The Parthenon,” you might expect a space ... and big enough to split with another person. It’s simple with just some lemon and fennel, but it’s delicious.

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 ...

Things, of course, are not quite that simple. But the Parthenon nonetheless remains for us a powerful statement of what human beings are capable of. Q: Were the builders of the Parthenon trying to ...

The argument is simple and, as Hitchens put it, “unanswerable.” One of the great monuments of world culture—a temple garlanded with masterful carvings—the Parthenon was designed by Phidias ...

Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a few years later put them on public show in London. For most western Europeans it was the ...

This identity is reinforced with the Parthenon, a full-scale replica of the one found in Athens. Although Nashville's Parthenon was only meant to be temporary – it was built for the Tennessee ...