Having won the favor of the governor of Athens, Lusieri and his men dismantled a large part of the frieze from the Parthenon as well as numerous capitals and metopes. Finally in 1803, the huge ...

The shipwreck of the “Mentor,” Lord Elgin's brig carrying part of the Parthenon Marbles from Greece to Britain, continues to ...

These three battles (as well as episodes from the Trojan War) were also represented on the outside of the Parthenon, on the metopes of the building. So there is a thematic unity from the exterior ...

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

So what you have on the Parthenon is different ways of understanding the 'otherness' of your enemy. I mean, the best interpretation of the metopes, is that you see the heroic conflicts as ...

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...

The cause of the Parthenon marbles was therefore both personal ... Its friezes depict a procession of gods, warriors, and mythical animals; its metopes, single panels within the larger frieze ...

So what you have on the Parthenon is different ways of understanding the 'otherness' of your enemy. I mean, the best interpretation of the metopes, is that you see the heroic conflicts as ...