The Athen’s Acropolis is an amazing place with “The Porch Of The Maidens” being a frequent subject for photographs. The porch sits at the rear of the detailed Erechtheion that was constructed around 315 BC. The maidens are facing the Parthenon, and were given the name ‘Caryatids’, after the young women from the village of Karyes in Laconia in the Peloponnese.
The architectural and cultural significance of the Porch of the Maidens as written about at the time, was to reflect the ancient Greeks ideals of beauty, virtue, and protection, as it was believed that the closed nature of the porch was to symbolize the maidens’ virginity.
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