Showing posts with label Parthenon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parthenon. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Blowing up the Acropolis

The Acropolis has become the byword for Athens, though every Greek city sported an acropolis, an upper town. The Athenian Acropolis was built and destroyed several times during its 7,500 years of history and it found many uses. What sticks in the mind, though, is the moment when the Venetians blew it up.