LINKS TO OTHER PARTHENON-RELATED WEB SITES 

Parthenon, Athens, Greece 

• Title: The Acropolis of Athens
  Author: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 1995-1998
  Address: http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21101a/e211aa01.html
  Review: This site offers a brief historical account of how the Acropolis was designed, build, and finished as well as how the specific monuments were worked on. There are links to the Ministry of Culture’s main page, other Greek monuments and historical or archaeological locations in Greece, as well as tourist sites, cultural events calendars and press releases of interest in Greece or about Greece.

• Title: The Parthenon
  Author: David Silverman, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
  Address: http://homer.reed.edu/parthenon.html
  Review: Designed for the Humanities 110 course at Reed College, this excellent site offers brief and helpful abstracts about the setting of the Parthenon; and its architecture, metopes, pediments, and friezes; as well as links to the texts of relevant ancient authors, virtual tours, drawings, and reconstructions.

• Title: A Virtual Library of Significant Historical Buildings in Their Original Form
  Author: The Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology (ICEMT) and the Iowa State University Department of Architecture (students and professors), 1998
  Address: http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ArchVR/images_greek.html
  Review: This particular site was designed as a collaborative effort between the Department of Architecture at Iowa State and the Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology and offers a variety of computer-generated 3-D drawings and re-colored images of the Parthenon as well as of some Egyptian and Roman buildings. There is also a movie that simulates the building of the Parthenon. In addition, there is a good brief architectural description of the Parthenon with references.

• Title: Sacred Places: Athenian Acropolis, Greece
  Author: Christopher L.C. E. Witcombe, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College, 1998
  Address: http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/acropolis.html
  Review: This site was written and constructed for a course given in January 1998 at Sweet Briar College entitled "Mysterious Places: The Art and Architecture of Sacred Sites." The Athenian Akropolis and the Parthenon are therefore presented in the context of an investigation of sacredness and how the sacred is embodied or made manifest through art and architecture.

• Title: The Parthenon
  Author: McDougal Littell Inc. (A division of the Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997
  Address: http://www.mcdougallittell.com/whist/whact/U3nj/U3main.htm
  Review: This site was created for the use of secondary school students and is dedicated to the virtual exploration of the Parthenon. Through creatively linked graphics and text, you may investigate topics like Form and Function, Marble Columns, Athena and Other Statues, and Temple Carvings. The site also includes modern comparanda as well as discussion questions and quizzes.

• Title: The Parthenon
  Authors: Lisa Bellavia, Tanya Bender, and Kevin Sullivan, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
  Address: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/gse/landmarks/home.html
  Review: This site was created for the use of elementary school students who are interested in learning about World Landmarks. It features a clickable map which will lead you to a page dedicated to the Parthenon. The information presented is brief but correct.

• Title: ISA 497: Humanities Senior Seminar
  Author: Ann Nicgorski, Willamette University, 1999
  Address: http://www.willamette.edu/~anicgors/isa497/index.html
  Review: This site was designed for the Humanities Senior Seminar on the Parthenon that was taught in Spring 1999 by Professor Ann Nicgorski. The page has a wealth of information and useful links.
  

• Title: Parthenon Digenis
  Author: Hellenic Graduate Student Association, University of Maryland at College
  Park
  Address: http://www.inform.umd.edu/StudentOrg/digenis/Parthenon/
  Review: The home page for an exhibit that took place in Fall 1997 entitled "From
  Pentilikon to the Parthenon" featuring the drawings of Manolis Korres, architect and
  restorer of the Parthenon. Some of the drawings, which depict the quarrying and
  travel of the marble to the Akropolis during the construction of the Parthenon, are
  here reproduced

• Title: The Ancient Reception of Pheidias' Athena Parthenos: The Visual Evidence
  in Context
  Author: Kenneth D.S. Lapatin, Boston University
  Address: http://www2.open.ac.uk/arts/cc96/lapatin.htm
  Review: A very interesting and readable online article.

Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee 

• Title: The Parthenon in Nashville
  Author: Metropolitan Nashville Board of Parks and Recreation, 1997
  Address: http://www.parthenon.org/dev/index.html
  Review: The Parthenon in Nashville is the world's only full-size replica of the ancient Parthenon in Athens. This web site serves as the Nashville Parthenon's first face to the world providing original content concerning many aspects of the museum's history, architecture, art and operations. Additional offerings on the web site include a virtual tour of selected works from the Cowan Collection --the Parthenon's premiere collection of American art, and a continuously updated schedule of exhibits and special events at the museum. By mid-summer 1999, the Nashville Parthenon web site will reach maturity with the addition of a virtual tour of the entire museum with special emphasis on the buildings architectural features: the pediments, the friezes, and of course, the colossal statue of Athena Parthenos. Other features under development for the web site include a photo essay on the Tennessee State Centennial, an illustrated time line of the ancient Parthenon's history, a curriculum guide for elementary, middle, and high schools with lesson plans and activities in many content areas available for download to educators world-wide, and much more.

• Title: Sacred Geometry, Refinements of Form, and the Two Parthenons
  Author: Shawn Eyer, The Lyre Magazine Online, Summer 1993
  Address: http://www.globaltown.com/shawn/lyre1b.html
  Review: A short essay exploring the architectural design of both the Athenian Parthenon and the Nashville Parthenon.

Elgin Marbles 

• Title: The Parthenon Marbles
  Author: Ian Swindale, Teacher, John Paragioudakis English School, Rethymno, Crete
  Address: http://ares.math.utk.edu/marbles/
  Review: An excellent, comprehensive site on the Elgin Marbles debate with information about the history of the Marbles as well as the points of view of the Greek government, the British government, the British Labour Party, the British Museum, and much, much more.

   

• Title: The Law and Ethics Deriving form the Parthenon Marbles Case
  Author: Irini A. Stamatoudi, Attorney at Law (Leicester University), 1997
  Address: http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/1997/issue2/stamatoudi2.html
  Review: A well organized and thoroughly chronicled essay about the legal and ethical issues pertaining to the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles debate.