ACROPOLIS, Parthenon First Part

Before you is one of the most important monuments of Ancient Greece, and one of the most famous sights in the world: the Parthenon.

This was the most sacred of the temples in the city, because it was dedicated to Athena, the protectress of the city, the goddess of wisdom, handicraft and warfare, a huge ivory statue of whom – almost 13 meters tall and decorated with more than 1000 kilos of gold – was located in the naos, or inner chamber. In ancient Greek, the name Parthenon referred to "unmarried women's apartments", and in this case presumably meant “temple of the virgin goddess”, because Athena was unmarried and a virgin.

The Parthenon was built after 480 BC, when the Acropolis was plundered by the Persians, who destroyed an earlier temple....