Spanning the temple’s entablature, the frieze held ... of the Parthenon compositions. With South Metope IV, a left hind leg represents a first step. The Hunt explores art and ancient relics ...

Housing more than 4,000 works of art, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens ... sculptural works that include 247 feet of the original Parthenon frieze. Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to ...

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of ...

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

And she tells it as a journalist would, rather than an art historian or guide ... 2,500-year-old marble frieze from the Parthenon in Athens shows six noblewomen weavers walking in a ritual ...

Andrew Norman Wilson, a prolific and influential British author who regularly writes for The Times of London, expressed his opposition to any scenario involving the return of the Parthenon ...

On the facade of Philip’s tomb, a frieze depicting Macedonian nobles at ... to describe, measure and draw them,” Kottaridi says. “An unbelievable honor.” After finishing her dissertation ...

The cast is of the boy Eros (figure 42) from slab VI of the east frieze of the Parthenon. Watching the procession, he stands against the knees of his seated mother, Aphrodite. This portion of the ...

In this book I have taken as a starting point certain lectures on the sculptures of the Parthenon ... or from Carrey’s drawings of portions since lost. With this purpose in view, it has been found ...