Member states contributed money and warships, and the Athenian empire grew powerful under the famed general Pericles, who spearheaded the new Parthenon's construction beginning in 447 B.C. It took ...

So the Parthenon was an attempt on the part of Pericles and Athens to assert the city's cultural, political, and military dominance over the rest of Greece and the Aegean. Pericles called Athens ...

Morosini withdrew from Athens with the dubious of honor of having caused more damage to the Parthenon in just one year than it had suffered in the two millennia since Socrates and Pericles had ...

Wilson writes that the Parthenon was built largely based on the designs of Phidias, the close friend of Pericles, who was the founder of Athenian democracy. He notes that Pericles' contemporaries ...

Athens is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It has been a place of human settlement for at least 5,000 years.

and the Germans decided they were going to resurrect the Athens of Pericles. This initiated, I think, the perennial identification of the new Greek nation with the Parthenon. So, we have been ...

A spectacular drone video showcasing the Temple of Poseidon captures the glory of the ancient monument situated on Cape ...

After the Greeks defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon, Pericles, who considered his ... Erechtheion and the ravaged pediment of the Parthenon is always of the heroic old structures ...

and the Germans decided they were going to resurrect the Athens of Pericles. This initiated, I think, the perennial identification of the new Greek nation with the Parthenon. So, we have been ...