The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

It consists of an engraving of a building. Researchers think the crude drawing might depict a temple that once existed within the Acropolis. The Acropolis is a monumental complex that sits on a ...

“Although there were many important sanctuaries and public spaces in Athens and across Attica,” says classical art historian Jeffrey Hurwit of the University of Oregon, “the Acropolis stands ...

The Acropolis’s first structures were built for ... announced that Athens was a center for Greek art, faith, and thought. The golden age of Athenian power was brief, however.

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...

The acropolis, awesome and aloof on its limestone ... next 50 years was nothing less than a declaration in architecture, art, and artifice of the glory that was Greece. There are certain places ...

Situated on the south slope of the Acropolis, the Herod Atticus Odeon ... the locale serves as the site for many theater, music and art festivals, including the Athens and Epidaurus Festival ...

But classical scholar Jeffrey Hurwit, a professor of art history at the University of Oregon and expert on the architecture of the Acropolis, can at least help fuel our visions. In the following ...

When it opened a decade ago, the Acropolis Museum was controversial ... to prehistoric sculpture juxtaposed with contemporary art at the Museum of Cycladic Art and 20th-century Greek painting ...

The small marble temple on the rock’s southwest corner dedicated to Athena Nike (Victorious Athena), built between 427 and 424 B.C., was the first building on the Acropolis to be restored.