Located just north of the Parthenon high above the city within the Acropolis complex, the Erechtheion was constructed between 421 and 406 B.C. as a place for Athenians to worship Erechtheus, the ...

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The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex bequeathed by Greek Antiquity to the ...

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While visitors to the Acropolis Museum in Athens can still see the 2,500-year-old caryatid statues that once graced the porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis, the marble figures are ...

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