History and Culture

  • Dodona oracle view with oak tree leaves rustling

    Dodona History

    Dodona History

    Dodona (Δωδώνα, Δωδώνη, Dodoni) is an important ancient Greek oracle, second in fame only to Delphi. It is located in a strategic pass at the eastern slopes of the imposing Mt. Tomaros, close to the modern city of Ioannina…

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  • Temple of Athena Pronaia

    Delphi History

    Delphi History

    Apollo squinted in the bright sunlight and calmly tensed his muscles as he pulled his bow. He released his arrows one after the other until Python’s blood was spilled and his life escaped in the thin air. Python-dragon,the…

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  • Metroon ruins

    Agora of Athens History

    Agora of Athens History

    Prehistory to Iron Age The Agora of Athens has been in use since the late Neolithic era, and it was used as a cemetery during the Mycenaean and the later Iron Ages. Excavations have unearthed around 50 tholos…

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  • The Parthenon. Painting by Frederic Edwin Church

    Acropolis in Modern Era

    Acropolis in Modern Era

    The Acropolis After the Liberation of Greece In 1821, after three and a half centuries of occupation, the Greeks revolted to overthrow the Ottoman Empire from their land. During the struggle, the Acropolis changed hands several times and…

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  • Post-Classical Acropolis

    Post-Classical Acropolis

    Post-Classical Acropolis

    Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Eras During the Hellenistic era, the King of Pergamon, Eumenes II, commissioned the Pedestal of Agrippas to support a composition of four bronze sculptures. A few minor buildings were added, and some modifications of existing…

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  • Reconstruction of the Acropolis in 5th century BCE.

    Classical Acropolis

    Classical Acropolis

    The votive offerings continued at the Acropolis during the classical era (489 – 323 BCE). The Athenians built a small temple of Athena Nike right next to the Propylaia after winning a war against Boeotia and Chalcis. The Persian Wars…

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  • Reconstruction of the Acropolis around 480 BCE

    Archaic Acropolis

    Archaic Acropolis

    7th Century BCE During the 7th c. BCE monumental sculpture and architecture began its development in mainland through a number of building projects in the Acropolis of Athens, at cape Sounion in the southern tip of Attica and…

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  • Acropolis about 1200 BCE reconstruction

    Prehistoric Acropolis

    Prehistoric Acropolis

    Stone Age The chronicle of the Acropolis of Athens is lost in prehistory, to a time even before the plane of Attica began to be cultivated. While the area around Attica was inhabited during the Upper Paleolithic period…

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  • Painting of the Acropolis of Athens by Leo von Klenze

    History of the Acropolis

    History of the Acropolis

    Geology The Acropolis rock is part of a Late Cretaceous limestone ridge (Higgins) that cuts through the Attica plateau in the northeast to the southwest axis and includes the Likavitos hill, the Philopappos (Museum) hill, the hill of…

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