Among over 2,000 remnants of ancient Greek graffiti, one scholar has uncovered a diagram of this lost temple to Athena, ancient Greece's goddess of war and wisdom.

Athens is, or at least should be, better known for the impressive temples and other archaeological sites that are all around ...

The Parthenon is probably one of the most iconic examples of Greek architecture. This ancient temple, once dedicated to the goddess Athena, sits atop the hill of the Acropolis at Athens and has ...

A little known, off-the-beaten-path Greek island that you may not have heard about is a hidden gem just waiting to be ...

A mysterious example of ancient Greek graffiti may reveal the existence of a lost temple at the ... a marble temple dedicated to the goddess Athena—built in 5th century B.C.—that has become ...

Dedicated to the goddess Athena, ... The Temple of Hephaestus is one of the best preserved ancient Greek temples in existence ...

Art Bites 105: Ancient Greek Temples, the Parthenon and Its Art. Clip ... And inside was a 40-foot-tall gold-and-ivory statue (this is a reproduction) of the goddess Athena.

Two additional centuries passed by until, around 550 B.C.E., the Lydian King Croesus decided to finance the construction of a bigger, better temple dedicated to the goddess of the hunt.

The small marble temple on the rock’s southwest corner dedicated to Athena Nike (Victorious Athena), built between 427 and 424 B.C., was the first building on the Acropolis to be restored.

In Athens the entire Acropolis rock, crowned by the famous Parthenon temple (built for the goddess of wisdom, Athena Parthenos), was sacred not to Athena but to her sister Aphrodite.

Athena and Poseidon were two Greek gods. ... The Greeks built temples to their gods and goddesses. Some temples were small, while others were very grand and beautiful with amazing decorations.