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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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The Acropolis is a sacred hill in the heart of ... the Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque after Ottoman Turks conquered the city. Now a museum, it has survived earthquakes, sieges and 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 ...

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