Greece, the birthplace of democracy, is a beautiful, rugged country, steeped in history. It has nearly 1600 islands, but only 170 of them are inhabited. Half of the ten million population live in Athens.
This bustling city is a good central point from which to see Greece. The white marble Parthenon on Acropolis Hill is a [...]
Athens is a city steeped in history. Many see it as the birthplace of civilization as we know it. Certainly it was the birthplace of democracy. Athens was the leading light in ancient Greece and was run on one of the purest democracies the world as ever known.
And, as you would expect in such a [...]
Athens is one of the few cities in the world which has great historical value for the entire world. This is one of the city’s where civilization is said to have been born, and certainly it was the birthplace of democracy. Athens was at one time the beacon of ancient Greece. It was one of [...]
Some of the most magnificent treasures in the world are found in the Acropolis museum. This is a 2 million dollar museum built just to house some of the most important treasures of Greece and especially of Athens. Even though Lord Elgin happened to rob the parthenon of large parts of this treasure, he [...]
The Acropolis Museum contains magnificent treasures which have survived to modern times as a testament to the respect of the Athenians and their love of beauty. Despite the fact that Lord Elgin took the lion’s share of the Parthenon’s decoration, he also left fragments such as torsos from the pediment and sections of the frieze [...]
The new Acropolis Museum has brought with it a few world cultural questions about “ownership” of artifacts. In this case we are talking about the Parthenon Marbles or as some would call them the Elgin marbles. This is an incredible piece of facade or relief from the Acropolis that was sent to the British [...]
The opening of the new Acropolis Museum in Athens has raised thought-provoking questions about museum artifact ownership. This particular debate centers on the Parthenon Marbles (Elgin Marbles), a stunning facade or wall relief that was transported from Greece to the British Museum of Natural History between 1801 and 1805 by Thomas Bruce, 7th Lord of [...]
In the area between the Propylea and the Parthenon, a good many monuments attracted the attention of Pausanias, who was always ready to describe and repeat what he had heard about them, mainly about the votive offerings of the Athenians to gods and heroes and about the small shrines which emphasized the significance of the [...]
There are two characteristic hills in the Attica Basin: Lycabettus, the higher and steeper of the two, and the Acropolis, at an altitude of about 150 m. above sea level, on the slopes of which spring waters still flow. It is on account of these springs that the rock has been inhabited from the neolithic [...]
One of the new additions to Athens Greece is the Acropolis Museum. This is a wonderful new museum with samples of some of the most wondrous ancient artifacts, and art works in the world. But this new museum has also caused much political discord, because of the need to bring back ancient relics that were [...]