Acropolis (English language edition)

Acropolis: Visiting its Museum and its Monuments, the outcome of assiduous research based on the most recent scientific findings, aims to be a friendly and useful travel companion. Its descriptions and interpretative analyses help us to see the monuments in a different way and to understand the historical, artistic and political events that contributed to their creation. Through the texts and the illustrations we get to know the gods and heroes who were worshipped on the Acropolis, the leaders who envisaged the major projects, the artists who brought them to fruition, as well as the innovative ideas they applied and the Athenian citizens who admired and enjoyed these achievements.



This little book will help us to explore and engage with the monuments of Athens, not with awe but with the joy that springs from knowledge.

Panos Valavanis (1954) is professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Athens, teaching and searching in the fields of classical vase painting, topography of ancient Athens, classical architecture, Greek athletics and ancient Greek technology. He has taken part in a lot of excavations in Greece at the field and in the publishing of the finds. He is especially interested in the dissemination of the current research to the wider public.