In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

Hurwit: Thirty years before Pericles began his great building program, the Acropolis was destroyed by Persians in 480 and again in 479 B.C. after a great invasion led by the king of Persia ...

The Acropolis is a massive archaeological site brimming with the artistic monuments and wonders of ancient Greece. Here are ...

When the Acropolis was ransacked by the Persians in 580 BC, the Athenians vowed never to rebuild on it. But thirty-three years later, the great statesmen Pericles persuaded the popular assembly to ...

As for Pericles, he died in a plague that devastated the city’s population. But the Acropolis would long outlive him. A ...

The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols ... an exceptional group of artists put into effect the ambitious plans of Athenian statesman Pericles and, under the inspired guidance ...

Much of the construction of the Acropolis of Athens as we know it today began during the second half of the fifth century B.C ...

The colossal gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena, in the Parthenon on the Acropolis ... when it was ruled by Pericles.