Situated on a rocky outcrop above Athens, Greece, the Acropolis is a citadel featuring some of the greatest architecture of the classical world. The most famous structure there is the Parthenon ...

But classical scholar Jeffrey Hurwit, a professor of art history at the University of Oregon and expert on the architecture of the Acropolis, can at least help fuel our visions. In the following ...

The acropolis, awesome and aloof on its limestone ... What arose during the next 50 years was nothing less than a declaration in architecture, art, and artifice of the glory that was Greece.