Welcome to the first chapter of our Acropolis tour! We begin in 490 BCE, when Athens was a large, radical democracy facing the colossal Persian Empire. Witness the legendary battles of Marathon and ...

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Phidias supervised the sculptures around the Parthenon during Athens' Golden Age. Christians defaced them in the 6 th Century AD when the building was made a church. In 1687, the Venetian Army shelled ...

For the first time in two centuries, visitors to Athens are being treated to a rare sight: the Parthenon, Greece’s most iconic structure, completely free of scaffolding, but not for long. Since the ...