The Acropolis & the Parthenon

The Acropolis & the Parthenon

An introduction to this album’s contents.

The Panathenaia and the Panathenaic way

How the archaeological remains of ancient Athens reveal much about civic life.

The Acropolis

Exploring the Acropolis in the footsteps of ancient Athenians.

The Parthenon

Exploring the functions of the largest building on the Acropolis

The Parthenon -pediments and metopes

Looking at the surviving pieces from the Parthenon’s pediments now in the British Museum, and seeing how they would have looked originally.