Dedicated to Athena and Poseidon ... At the Museum you can see exquisite sculptures, ancient pottery, gold jewelry, and ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

But classical scholar Jeffrey Hurwit, a professor of art history at the ... from almost anywhere in the ancient city. A full-scale, 12-ton replica of the colossal Athena Parthenos is the ...

Art. Theatre. Architecture. We Ancient Greeks are very ... Inside was a 12-metre-high gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena. All of our important buildings have perfect proportions: symmetry ...

The Greeks built grand temples to their gods and superb sculptures of brave heroes. Three different designs of ancient Greek columns ... city to worship the god Athena. There were competitions ...

The site is an elevated, flat-topped rock with an assortment of monuments and ruins built throughout the 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so ... discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and man, just outside the gates on the east ...