The Parthenon

Today a ‘beautiful but broken shell’, the Parthenon has housed three very different cults – those of Athena, Allah and the Blessed Virgin – since it was first constructed in the fifth century BC. It was a Christian soldier, in the siege of 1687, who did most to destroy the sanctuary. 

Donald Nicol | Published in History Today Volume 7 Issue 8 August 1957

'View of the Parthenon from the Propylea', Edward Dodwell, Views in Greece, London 1821, depicting buildings of the time within the Acropolis

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