Parthenon

The Rev. Philip Lindsley came to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1824 to rescue the struggling Cumberland College (now University of Nashville). What he brought with him was a great vision: to ...

A century and a half ago, Athens was a humble, forgotten city of about 8,000 people. Today, one ...

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea," ...

ATHENS, Greece—It's only the size of a shoebox, carved with the broken-off foot of an ancient Greek goddess. ...

Greek architecture emphasized physical perfection and symmetry based on a mathematical understanding of aesthetics.