In Athens, the fifth century BC served as a period in which art and thought flourished, and it defines our image of Ancient ...

Not so the Acropolis. On the long-ago bright September day when I landed for the first time in Greece aboard the S.S. Olympia, I took a taxi from Piraeus to Athens ... knew whose view of the ...

The intention, says Hurwit, was to represent Athens as the greatest of Greek cities and the Athenians as the greatest of Greeks. “To walk through the classical Acropolis was to traverse a marble ...

Herodes Atticus' projects shaped 2nd-century Greece, blending rhetoric, philanthropy and architecture in a legacy of lasting ...

(Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP) (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images) If you’re heading to one of Greece’s biggest ... introduced at the Acropolis in Athens.

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...