There are many mysteries concerning the ancient Greek world, including the identity of some of its most illustrious members ...

And the great statue of Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon ... In fact, entasis is the Greek word for tension or swelling. The kinds of optical refinements that we detect in the architecture ...

The famed statue of Athena had already been removed ... It occurred during the War for Independence, the Greek struggle to gain freedom from the Ottoman Empire. Archeologists estimate that ...

For most western Europeans it was the first time they had ever been able to look closely at Greek sculpture ... was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos, meaning Athena the Virgin.