The Venetians struck the first blow. In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been using ...
Among the handful of iconic buildings that survive from classical antiquity, the Parthenon, perched atop the Athenian acropolis, comes uniquely freighted with meaning. Ostensibly built as a temple to ...
The Elgin Marbles, sometimes referred to as the Parthenon sculptures, are a collection of marble sculptures that originally adorned the top of the exterior of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, and are ...