• The eastern façade of the Parthenon. The pediment statues depict the birth of the goddess Athena and the metopes depict the Battle of the Giants...
  • The sculpted decoration of the Parthenon included ninety-two metopes showing scenes of mythical battle.
  • Parthenon'un metopları Başlangıçta Atina Akropolü Parthenonperistil sütun üzerinde yer alan orijinal 92 kare oymalı Pentelik mermer plakaların kalane kalan seti.
  • Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs , Parthenon Metopes, south flank, marble, c. 440 BCE, Classical Period (British Museum, London).
  • Metopes of the western part of the Parthenon. These have been damaged by 2.500 years of pollution, wars and vandalism.
  • The Parthenon (Greek: Παρθενώνας) is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena built in the fifth century B.C.E. on the Acropolis of Athens.
  • Until recently the archaeologists used to believe that those metopes had been destroyed during the Morosini explosion of the Parthenon, in 1678.
  • The sculptural decoration of the Parthenon is a unique masterpiece in the history of world art and is organized in three distinct sections: the metopes, rectangular...
  • Time, weathering and cleaning has caused the Elgin Marbles and other Parthenon sculptures to look white, but they and other parts of the structure were...