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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...