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The pediment of the archaic temple. Heracles killing the Lernaean Hydra.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Heracles, Mythology, Sculptures

Reconstruction of the southwestern angle of the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Peisistratos

Plan of the Peisistratid Temple of Athena and of the Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Peisistratos

Traces of the Pelasgian wall.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

Reconstruction of the direction of the “Pelasgian wall”.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

The fountain of Clepsydra.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Fountains / Springs, Greece

Plan of the Acropolis.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

The cave of Pan.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caves, Greece

Northern slope of the Acropolis.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings

Plan and section plan of the Acropolis.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings

The Acropolis in 1670.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

Tower of Beulé.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Towers

Plan of the Parthenon as a Christian church.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings

View of the Acropolis from Areopagus.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

View of Temple of Apollo at Ancient Corinth. Acrocorinth in the background.

Tags: Acrocorinth, Ancient Corinth, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Castles and fortresses, Corinth, Doric order, Greece, Peloponnese, Ruins, Temple of Apollo (Ancient Corinth)

View of the theatre of Deplhi the day of the performance of Aeschylus' Suppliants in the Delphic festival of 1930.

Tags: Angelos Sikelianos, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Classical tragedy, Cultural activities, Delphi, Delphic Festival, Greece

Scene from the performance of Aeschylus' Suppliants, in the ancient theatre of Delphi during the Delphic festival of 1930.

Tags: Ancient theatres, Angelos Sikelianos, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Classical tragedy, Cultural activities, Delphi, Delphic Festival, Greece

Leonidas in the battle of Thermopylae, according to the painting by Jacques Louis David.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Battles, Central Greece, Greece, History, Thermopylae

View of the Capuchin convent, close to the Choregic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens. Engraving by David Le Roy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Greece, Houses, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

The Erechtheion. Engraving from the edition of James Stuart and Nicholas Revett.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Erechtheion, Europeans, Greece, Human types

The column of Pompey (triumphal column of Diocletian) in Alexandria.

Tags: Alexandria, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Pompey's Pillar / Triumphal pillar of Diocletian

The “cave of Homer” near Izmir.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Natural environment

View of the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina.

Tags: Aegina, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Doric order, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

View of the Acropolis from the Pnyx.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon

View of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon, Temple of Zeus (Olympia), Views

View of the ancient theatre of Nicopolis.

Tags: Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Epirus, Greece, Nicopolis (Epirus)

View of ancient theatre in Epirus.

Tags: Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Epirus, Greece, Views

The relief of Archedemos in Vari Cave.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Reliefs, Sculptures, Vari, Vari Cave

South east angle of the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon, Views

The west front of the Acropolis from the summits of the Propylaea.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Views

The remains of the Temple of Olympian Zeus and the southeast angle of the Acropolis and the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Parthenon

Athens from the foor of Anchesmus [Lycabettus].

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Human types, Professions, Shepherds, Views

Remains of the Stadium at Delphi, the village of Castri and the Castalian summits of the Parnassus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Castalian spring, Central Greece, Delphi, Greece, Human types, Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Phocis

Relief of Nekrodeipnon (funeral symposium in honour of the deceased).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Reliefs

Hadrian's Library in Athens: Plan and elevation of the ruins on which part of the church of Megali Panagia was built. 1. Elevation of ancient arcade 2. Plan showing the ruins of ancient structures within the church. 3. Mouldings and impost of the ancient arcade within the church. 4. Section of the architrave supported by the columns and pilaster adjacent to the church. 4. Capital of the pilaster.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings

Hadrian's Library in Athens: Fig. 1. The plan of the capital. Fig. 2. The angular view of the capital.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Hadrian's Library in Athens: 1. The capital and entablature of the columns on the front of the building. 2. Section of the capital. 3. Bottom plan of mouldings. 4. Architrave of the interior of the portal and moulding of the abacus of the capital, continued underneath the architrave.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Hadrian's Library in Athens: 1. The base of one of the four fluted columns of the portal. Fig. 2. The cornice of the lateral walls and of the exhedrae. Fig. 3. The architrave of the gate-way or entrance before which the portal in the middle of the front is placed. Fig.4. A section of the aforesaid architrave.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Hadrian's Library in Athens: 1. The elevation of the portal of Hadrian's Library and the facade to the north of the portal. 2. A section of the front wall with a profile of the portal and the southern pteroma, with one of the columns between the portal and the northern pteroma. 3. Hadrian's Library in Athens: The section of the portal and of the gate-way of entrance before which it is placed. 4. Part of the external face of the lateral wall or flank of this building.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Plan of Hadrian's Library, Athens. The remaning part is shaded in the drawing.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Hadrian's Library, seen from the house of Nikolaos Logothetis, consul of Britain in Athens. In the foreground, the soap mills, an Ottoman aga receiving a visitor and an Albanian groom.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Ethnic groups, Horses, Houses, Human types, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

Relifs from the Choregic Monument of Lycirates in Athens: The story of Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian pirates.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Reliefs

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: Fig. 1. The flower on the top of the tholus or cupola. Fig. 2. The plan of the upper surface of the flower. Fig. 3. A perpendicular section of the top of the flower, made through the line A, B, C of the preceding figure.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: Fig. 1. A quarter of the upper surface of the Tholus or Cupola. Fig. 2. A section of the cupola made on the line CD of the foregoing figure. Fig. 3. A section of part of the cupola on the line EF. Fig. 4. A section of the helix or scrol marked A in Fig. 1, and 2. Fig. 5. represents the remains of the vitruvian scrols.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: The plan reversed, and the sections of the capital, with the elevation of half the unfinished part of the capital.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: The external face of the capital, with the entablature, and half one of the tripods.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings, Reliefs

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: The base of the column with the circular zoccolos or steps which are immediately above the quadrangular basement.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings

Elevation and section of the Choregic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings

Plan of the Choregic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens. The preserved part of the monument is shaded in the drawing.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings

The Choregic Monument of Lysicrates seen from the court of the hospice of the Capuchin monastery, where it was situated. A Capuchin monk living at the monastery.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Human types, Priests

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