GREECE

Acropolis of Athens

Acropolis (In Greek, "Acro" means 'high' and "Polis" means 'city'. The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock which rises 150 m above sea level in the city of Athens. It is an UNESCO world heritage site.

In the first picture, you see "The Erechtheum" an ancient Greek temple built between 421 and 407 BCE on the Acropolis of Athens in Greece. It derived its name from a shrine dedicated to the legendary Greek hero Erichthonius. According to some legends, King Erichthonius an early ruler of Athens, was an autochthonous (born of the soil or Earth) and raised by the goddess Athena.

In the second picture, you see "The Parthenon" a temple built in the 5th century BC on the Acropolis of Athens. It is dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena (Goddess of strategic warfare and heroic endeavour). The Parthenon replaced an older temple of Athena, called the pre-parthenon or older parthenon, that was destroyed during the Persian invasion in 480 BC. Between 1799 and 1803, the Turkish invaders sold the marble sculptures that originally belonged to the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens to 7th Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador. They are now placed on display in the British Museum.