The Architecture of Memory explores reconstructed temple-buildings from the Acropolis of ancient Athens.  Urban archaeology reveals the influences of language and mythology from their humble tribal beginnings, as ritual mime performed on festivals, to the temple Naos of the fifth century BCE.  Wall paintings describe scenes involving human figures, Gods, fantastic objects and creatures that populated the Greek world. Composite drawings combine ancient ruins with fragments of Greek vase-paintings.  During the High Classical period the Greek polis became a vessel for its tragic actors, orators, statesmen, and the symposia, a forum, which later developed Western philosophic thinking.  The city of Athens was at the center of the Greek world and Pericles the statesman supervised its reconstruction after the war with the Persians.