The Parthenon through time
Parthenon of Kostas Gavras (HD) – was made to tell the history of this great monument of Greece.
The movie itself has an interesting story, my dear friend Santiago Villar Ruíz. The museum of Acropolis (Athens) had excised a 12-second segment from the video showing Christian monks/priests hacking away the nude sculptures, when Christianity supplanted paganism in Greece after the fourth century AD. Costas Gavras’ reaction was: “I think it’s sad and unacceptable for Greece, a member of the European Union, that the state would bow to pressure from the Church,”
