Εκδόσεις Οίτυλο - The Parthenon Frieze

The thief shouts: I've been robbed!

The slayer complains:They want to kill me!

The liar does not believe anything.

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

Those who accuse us of being thieves are those who plundered our civilization.

They are the same that filled their museums with stolen treasures.

They are the same who never forgave the Greek resistance against the German atrocity.

Unkown Soldier

South Frieze

North Frieze

The Parthenon Frieze

The frieze consisted of 115 blocks. It had a total length of 160 meters and was 1.02 meters high.

Some 378 human figures and deities and more than 200 animals, mainly horses, are presented in the process. Groups of horses and chariots occupy most of the space on the frieze.

The sacrificial procession follows next, with animals and groups of men and women carrying ceremonial vessels and offerings. The procession concludes with the giving of the peplos, the gift of the Athenian people to the cult statue of the Goddess, a xoanon (ancient wooden statue). Left and right of the peplos scene sit the twelve gods of Mount Olympos.

From the entire frieze that survives today, 50 meters are in the Acropolis Museum, 80 meters in the British Museum, one block in the Louvre, whilst other fragments are scattered in the museums of Palermo, the Vatican, Würzburg, Vienna, Munich and Copenhagen.

West Frieze

Horseman