Originally built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition, this replica of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, serves as a monument to what is considered the pinnacle of classical architecture.

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 ...

On arriving in Athens, the first sight these young tourists would look for was the Acropolis and its crowning glory: the pillared Parthenon, dedicated to the warrior goddess Athena. Yet even as ...

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Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens ...

The modern city falls away at your feet, and behind, as the sun rises in the liquid reds and orange of a Greek dawn, the Parthenon, resplendent even in ruins, stands like a queen, arrayed in her ...

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 ...

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The Parthenon Sculptures "belong here in the UK" and should not be returned to Greece, the culture secretary has insisted. The ancient artworks, better known in the UK as the Elgin Marbles, are ...

Still, the city is also known as the "Athens of the South" thanks to the numerous higher education institutions established there. This identity is reinforced with the Parthenon, a full-scale ...

The Elgin Marbles will be returned to Greece within "two to three years", the general director of the Acropolis Museum has ...

To celebrate Tennessee's centennial festivities as a U.S. state in the 1890s, a replica of the Parthenon temple in Athens, ...