After nearly 1,700 years, a new temple dedicated to Zeus and Pan has been built in Arcadia, Greece, reviving ancient Hellenic worship. The temple, constructed on a private estate by Dr. Manolis ...

There is an ancient temple in Greece that is almost intact, standing at the top of the hill of Agoraios Colonos next to the ...

Greek temple-like church built in 1926 that still has a front entry of three wide steps of granite, four massive limestone columns, a pediment, and a raking cornice of limestone. It was a Catholic ...

Your co-worker is raving about the Cape Cod they toured over the weekend but you’re unsure what a Cape Cod is, exactly. If you’re not up on your architectural terminology, you’re not alone.

In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...

"Run your eyes up towards the sky and take a look at the painted reliefs of the pediment," reads a line about the temple from the play "Hypsipyle," written by ancient Greek dramatist Euripides and ...

Several fne horse heads of the east gable and two coupled human fgures of the west gable remain in situ on the front and back cornices of the famous temple ... the Parthenon pediments at his ...

In the Malcontenta it forms a pyramidal superstructure dominated by the temple fronts of the upper pediments, which occur above ... He has several schemes of archeological reconstruction of Greek and ...