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Austria's Parliament was built in 1883 and features a large statue of a pagan Greek goddess, Athena, among many other pagan Greco-Roman statues. Was this controversial in a deeply Catholic country in the 19th century?

by /u/RichmondRay in /r/AskHistorians

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