Caryatid

Home of the Caryatids

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens presents "Acropolis Redux: Caryatid/Frieze," an exhibition presenting the work of British photographer Ian Walker, who captured the enduring presence of the Erechtheion's Caryatids and the Parthenon's frieze in various guises from London housing projects to a Cleveland mansion.

Femen’s bare-breasted protests reached the Acropolis in central Athens on Thursday as a blonde activist with the words “No God, No Master” written across her chest posed a … modern-day Caryatid in front of the Erechtheion Temple.

Amalia Sotiropoulou completes her artistic trilogy with her exhibition titled “Missing Sister-Trilogy”. The exhibition is set to open on the 23rd of April at 19.30 local time in the Skoufa gallery.

Greece’s Culture Minister Kostas Tasoulas said on Monday it is “impossible” for Alexander the Great to have been buried at a tomb in Ancient Amphipolis currently being excavated by archaeologists.

Archaeologists working at the site of a vast ancient tomb in Amphipolis, northern Greece, on Thursday uncovered the bodies of two sculpted female figures, or caryatids, whose heads were unearthed over the weekend.

The life-sized marble statues flank the entrance to one of the tomb’s underground chambers which archaeologists are carefully exploring.

Two stunning caryatid statues have been unearthed holding up the entrance to the biggest ancient tomb ever found in Greece, archaeologists said.

Archaeologists have unearthed two sculpted female figures, known as Caryatids, as they slowly make their way into an ancient tomb recently discovered in Greece’s northeast, the country’s culture ministry said on Sunday.