Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon ... Greek city-states joined forces to form the Delian League, a democratic military alliance headed by Athens.

Lasting for up to three years, and taking in Switzerland, Paris, and Rome, the high point of this secular pilgrimage for most travelers was Greece. On arriving in Athens, the first sight these ...

The symbol of Western Civilization, the Acropolis' Parthenon was converted to a Christian church for almost a millennium, ...

Johnson As its name suggests, the Acropolis Museum – which resides in central Athens' Makrigianni district ... the Great and a gallery with various Parthenon artifacts. Many previous travelers ...

and marveled at the designs of Phidias and the new Parthenon. Athens had become the school of Greece. Pericles' was by now far too popular for his rivals to topple him as the city's leader.

The medals given out to athletes at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games showed a relief engraving of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis. Above it, the words “12th Paralympic Games Athens 2004” are written ...

For most people today, the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum provoke only one question: should they be in London or in Athens? The Greek government insists they should be in Athens ...