Standing on a bastion at the entrance to the Acropolis Hill of Athens is a masterpiece of the Greek temples, that of Athena ...

Among the Kore statues displayed at the Acropolis Museum one in particular stands out for its beauty: Kore number 670.

And the great statue of Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon ... In fact, entasis is the Greek word for tension or swelling. The kinds of optical refinements that we detect in the architecture ...

Worshippers dedicated hundreds of statues to Athena on the Acropolis during the period between ... while revealing more about the origins and significance of Greek portraiture.

The famed statue of Athena had already been removed ... It occurred during the War for Independence, the Greek struggle to gain freedom from the Ottoman Empire. Archeologists estimate that ...

For most western Europeans it was the first time they had ever been able to look closely at Greek sculpture ... was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos, meaning Athena the Virgin.

It still has its lovely and simple Doric columns, and once there was a huge ivory and gold statue of Athena, the Greek ...