Many collections of Parthenon statuary housed in the world ... Photograph by British Museum/Scala, Florence Having brought the statues and reliefs to England, Lord Elgin proposed putting them ...

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 ...

Parthenon sculpture ... was a series of 92 square relief carvings, known as metopes. Like all the other sculpture in the building, these would have originally been brightly coloured in red ...

The 2,500-year-old Parthenon is among the most recognizable embodiments of Greece's golden age, hailed worldwide as a symbol of wealth, culture, and intellect. The marble building was centrally ...

The Parthenon sculptures set out to present an ... was a series of 92 square relief carvings, known as metopes. Like all the other sculpture in the building, these would have originally been ...

Visit the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum ... Sculpted in the age of Pericles, Sophocles and Euripides, the reliefs – also known as the Elgin marbles – depict a procession ...