Entering the Beule Gate.. still climbing stairs. Thought to be built around 280 AD, the gate consists of two massive towers. It was built with Piraeus…
Looking up to the Temple of Athena Nike - Ancient Ionic temple depicting goddess Athena with 4 monolithic columns & decorated marble slabs.
Temple of Athena Nike
Propylaea - Ancient principal entryway to the Acropolis, built c. 432 BCE, with white marble Doric columns.
Propylaea
Parthenon - The Parthenon is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena during the fifth century BC. Its…
The Parthenon was built in thanksgiving for the Hellenic victory over Persian invaders during the Greco-Persian Wars. Like most Greek temples, the Parthenon…
Parthenon
The Parthenon is a peripteral octastyle Doric temple with Ionic architectural features. It stands on a platform or stylobate of three steps. In common with…
Parthenon
For most of its long history (and prehistory) the Acropolis was a fortress, walled against threats that remained real for hundreds of years, only to be replaced…
Construction started in 447 BC when the Delian League was at the peak of its power. It was completed in 438, although work on the decoration continued until 432…
From 1800 to 1803, The 7th Earl of Elgin removed some of the surviving sculptures, now known as the Elgin Marbles, reportedly (but controversially) with the…
Parthenon
Parthenon - The origin of the word "Parthenon" comes from the Greek word parthénos (παρθένος), meaning "maiden, girl" as well as "virgin, unmarried woman
Construction started in 447 BC when the Delian League was at the peak of its power. It was completed in 438, although work on the decoration continued until 432…
After the Ottoman conquest in the mid-fifteenth century, it became a mosque. In the Morean War, a Venetian bomb during the 1687 siege of the Acropolis landed on…
