Hurwit: Athena was known in many guises ... between the architectural form and the human form. Q: The sculptures within the Parthenon also seem to clearly pay tribute to the human form.

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos ... Elgin had received the necessary permit to look for and examine sculptures in and around the Parthenon, it is unclear whether he had permission from the Ottomans ...

The sculptures were of course made at a very particular time and with a very particular purpose. The Parthenon was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos, meaning Athena the Virgin.

Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon ... (female sculptures) from the nearby portico of the Erechtheion, and four fragments from the frieze of the temple to Athena Nike.

In the Parthenon’s innermost sanctuary, once the home of a massive ivory-and-gold statue of Athena, a gigantic collapsible crane turns on a concrete platform. Though heavy equipment dominated ...

A British organization wants to carve Parthenon Marbles replicas into Mount Pentelicus so Greece can become home to its own ...

The sculptures were of course made at a very particular time and with a very particular purpose. The Parthenon was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos, meaning Athena the Virgin.

A colossal Athena once presided over the Acropolis ... Lord Elgin, who appropriated many of the Parthenon's sculptures and ...

The Parthenon is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek ...

The sculptures were of course made at a very particular time and with a very particular purpose. The Parthenon was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos, meaning Athena the Virgin.