This theme of victory, of order over chaos, would have been drilled into any visitor to the Parthenon. These mythological battles between gods and giants, Greeks and centaurs, Greeks and Amazons ...

What if the gods actually ‘eat’ the food you offer them? Not just symbolically — but physically, as though the divine hand itself reached out and accepted your devotion. Across cultures and centuries, ...

Each god and goddess had power over a different aspect of life or the world. Click below to find out a bit more about them. The most famous temple in Greece was the Parthenon in Athens.

The Parthenon sculptures set out to present an Athenian universe made up of gods, heroes and mortals, woven together in complex scenes drawn from myth and daily life. They are, I think ...

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...

After conservative UK leaders refused to send Parthenon fragments home to Greece, a new government has ushered 'constructive' negotiations over a return. https://p.dw ...