The Parthenon’s base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior ...

The Parthenon was far more than a temple. It was Athens’ ultimate power move, which combined religion, politics, and economic ...

Today, the Parthenon is a broken-down rectangle of grand marble columns, and its interior is largely vacant. But when the temple was constructed between 447 and 438 B.C.E., designed in part by the ...

For now, I’m sitting in Athens, Greece, marveling that we spent much of the day tromping around the Parthenon — where, as my husband joked, I was looking for column inspiration. The truth is ...

For now, I’m sitting in Athens, Greece, marveling that we spent much of the day tromping around the Parthenon — where, as my husband joked, I was looking for column inspiration. The truth is ...

The Parthenon continues to bring an average of 370,000 visitors through the doors each year, with over 2,300 middle schoolers visiting the museum just between January and March 2023.

A smattering of ancient 6 th century B.C. Greek graffiti reveals that a different temple likely existed where the Parthenon now sits.; Clues from drawings made by a shepherd show there was likely ...