His bleak outlook always takes his brother down a peg or two. Perhaps the greatest philosopher of all time, Socrates is now an old man who spends much of his time at Acropolis Now, either trying to ...

Acropolis Now was an Australian sitcom set in a Greek cafe in Melbourne of the same name that ran for 63 episodes from 1989 to 1992 on the Seven Network. It was created by Nick Giannopoulos ...

QI's most famous outtake, feautring Stephen being mocked by Alan, Jimmy Carr, Rob Brydon and Bill Bailey for his failure to complete a sentence.

Rising to a height of between 60 and 70 meters above the city, the rocky flat-topped hill of the Acropolis is 300 meters from east to west and 150 meters from north to south. Its first ...

Rebecca Ann Hughes covers travel, culture and food in Europe. The Acropolis is consistently inundated with tourists, with as many as 23,000 visitors clogging up ... [+] the complex on some days.

I sometimes wonder if the temples of the Acropolis, created to glorify Athens, stand now as a reproof of what the city has become in modern times, like the fading photograph of an ancestor ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...

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They were unearthed during a recent excavation of the city’s acropolis, according to an Aug. 9 news release from the ...

In 447 Pericles began the project he is most famous for: the building program on the Acropolis. Through its great naval alliance the city controlled an empire - Pericles now insisted his ...