The Erechtheion, the ancient Greek temple held up by statues known as Caryatids, still stands on the Athens Acropolis.

Located just north of the Parthenon high above the city within the Acropolis complex, the Erechtheion was constructed between 421 and 406 B.C. as a place for Athenians to worship Erechtheus, the ...

American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 87, No. 4 (Oct., 1983), p. 482 (1 page) ...

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The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex bequeathed by Greek Antiquity to the ...