Greece rents out historic sites

Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Greece plans to rent out iconic archaeological treasures to advertising firms and film companies. These include the Parthenon (above) which is the temple on the Athenian Acropolis dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena. Greek archeologists have long griped that using the historic ruins was blasphemous. I wonder what the Goddess Athena would make of it all?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/20/greek-ancient-sites-for-rent

"ATHENE (or Athena) was the great Olympian goddess of wise counsel, war, the defence of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and other crafts. She was depicted crowned with a crested helm, armed with shield and spear, and wearing the snake-trimmed aigis cloak wrapped around her breast and arm, adorned with the monstrous head of the Gorgon."