Member states contributed money and warships, and the Athenian empire grew powerful under the famed general Pericles, who spearheaded the new Parthenon's construction beginning in 447 B.C. It took ...

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 ...

Morosini withdrew from Athens with the dubious of honor of having caused more damage to the Parthenon in just one year than it had suffered in the two millennia since Socrates and Pericles had ...

A wine cup believed to belong to ancient Greek politician Pericles, discovered in 2014, is the highlight of the Epigraphical ...

and the Germans decided they were going to resurrect the Athens of Pericles. This initiated, I think, the perennial identification of the new Greek nation with the Parthenon. So, we have been ...

Fry emphasized the importance of the Parthenon Sculptures and the imperative ... "For the first time in the history of humanity's ideas, Pericles, Phidias, and his workshop thought, designed ...

Towering over Athens, the Acropolis and its iconic Parthenon, is arguably the most ... ATHENS TO THE ISLANDS In the mid-fifth century BCE, Pericles called upon the city to embark upon a new ...

and the Germans decided they were going to resurrect the Athens of Pericles. This initiated, I think, the perennial identification of the new Greek nation with the Parthenon. So, we have been ...