This is a cast of the viewer's left side of block o from the south frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis at Athens ... faces front and is in the process of falling to his knees and into ...

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.

It is likely that Greek architects also strove for an architectural ... The Erechtheum, the classical temple of Athena Polias, was completed, and the temple of Athena Nike was built at the ...

(The word parthenon in its Greek form means "of the virgins.") A similar cult of girls lived at the temple of Athena Polias, "Athena of the City." The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium ...

A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods ... The most famous temple in Greece was the Parthenon in Athens. Inside stood a giant statue of Athena, the ...

The history of the Gorgoneion, Medusa’s fearsome symbol, from its Greek and Roman origins to its influence on Alexander the Great and more.

Located on on the southwestern side of the Acropolis, the Temple of Athena Nike is a small yet elegant structure celebrating ...