And the great statue of Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon ... In fact, entasis is the Greek word for tension or swelling. The kinds of optical refinements that we detect in the architecture ...

Stiftung Archäologie, Munich The partial color reconstruction of Athena is based on a c.490 B.C. sculpture of the Goddess from the pediment of the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina.

The famed statue of Athena had already been removed ... It occurred during the War for Independence, the Greek struggle to gain freedom from the Ottoman Empire. Archeologists estimate that ...

For most western Europeans it was the first time they had ever been able to look closely at Greek sculpture ... was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos, meaning Athena the Virgin.

She was worshiped all over the Greek world, but her primary cult ... His first acts were to erect a wooden statue of Athena and to found the Panathenaia, a festival in honor of the goddess.