South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

The activities and lesson plans developed for this Web site comprise a multidisciplinary unit that uses television, the Internet, and other resources as learning tools to explore and understand ...

Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice and the Ottomans, the great monument was ...

The American Journal of Archaeology and ... The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts Vol. 5, No. 1, Mar., 1889 The Newly Discovered Head of Iris from t... The Newly ...

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.

These include about half of the surviving fragments of a 160-meter-long (520-foot) frieze from the Parthenon Temple, which dates back around 2,500 years. They currently sit in the collection of ...

Meanwhile, Tiffany Jenkins, the author of Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended up in Museums and Why ...

The Parthenon’s base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior wa ...

An exhibit that will most likely be missing is the so-called Elgin Marbles, sculptural works that include 247 feet of the original Parthenon frieze. Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to ...

The Alexander The Great frieze The Harris Museum and Art Gallery has announced that the conservation for the Alexander Frieze ...

The case for the reunification of the Parthenon frieze is overwhelming. Germany and Italy have already returned key fragments to the care of the beautiful New Acropolis Museum, opened in 2009 ...

For decades, Greek authorities have been arguing for the permanent return of the so-called Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles. These include about half of the surviving fragments of ...