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The putative Tomb of Themistocles in Piraeus.

Tags: Argo-Saronic gulf, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Piraeus, Ruins, Tomb of Themistocles (Piraeus)

The northern wall of the Acropolis of Athens and the church of Metamorfosis Sotiros.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Central Greece, Children, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Houses, Human types, Ruins, Walls, Walls of the Acropolis

The Temple of Aphaia, Aegina.

Tags: Aegina, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Islands, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Ruins, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

North-west view of the Acropolis of Athens. In the background the Monument of Philopappus.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Donkeys, Greece, Human types, Monument of Philopappus, Walls, Walls of the Acropolis

The Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), seen from the north-west.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Greek alphabet, Houses, Human types, Inscriptions, Ruins, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

View of the site of Panathenaic Stadium and Ilissus river.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Goats, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Panathenaic Stadium, Professions, Rivers, Ruins, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life

Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Houses, Human types, Reliefs, Ruins

The Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Children, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Houses, Human types

Erechtheion: View of the north propylon from the east.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Human types, Ionic order, Ruins, Views

View of the Erechtheion from the south. On the right Mount Lycabettus.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Human types, Ionic order, Ruins

The Parthenon from the west. On the right the Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Erechtheion, Greece, Parthenon, Ruins

The first architectural phase of Pnyx.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Pnyx

View of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

View of the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Greece, Natural environment, Sounion, Temple of Poseidon (Sounio)

The ancient theater at Thorikos in Lavrio. In the background Makronisos.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Thoricus, Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Islands, Lavreotiki, Makronisos island, Ruins, Theatres, Thorikos

Roman mausoleum (today part of the church of Panagia Marmariotissa) in Chalandri.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Churches, Greece, Halandri, Mausoleums, Roman architecture, Roman funerary monuments, Roman monuments, Ruins

Inscription from fountain at Oropos, perhaps close to Amphiareion.

Tags: Amphiareion, Ancient sanctuaries, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Oropos

View of the ruins of the Walls of Themistocles in Athens.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Natural environment, Ruins, Walls, Walls of Themistocles

The Spring of Callirrhoe at Ilissus. In the background the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Goats, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Rivers, Spring of Callirrhoe

Fragment from the west frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)

Part of the Propylae of the Acropolis of Athens and the Temple of Athena Nike. In the foreground the pedestal of Agrippa. In the background the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion).

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Ionic order, Monument of Agrippa, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Ruins, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis), Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Views

View of the port of Eleusis and part of Salamis island.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Eleusis, Greece, Houses, Human types, Islands, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Ports, Ruins, Salamis, Views

View of Daphni Monasteri in Chaidari.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Central Greece, Chaidari, Churches, Daphni monastery, Greece, Houses, Views

Topographic map of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Lycabettus, Maps, Nymphs Hill, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Philopappos Hill / Mouseion Hill, Philopappos Hill / Nymphs Hill, Pnyx

Map of Piraeus, clearly depicting the ports of the city.

Tags: Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Maps, Mikrolimano (Tourkolimano) / anc. Port of Munichia, Piraeus, Port of Piraeus, Port of Zea (Pasalimani), Ports

Map of south Greece and the Cyclades. Map of Attica.

Tags: Attica, Central Greece, Cyclades, Euboea, Greece, Islands, Maps, Peloponnese

Map of Athens with its walls, showing the sites of ancient monuments.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Maps

Reconstruction of a certain monument, possibly of the Roman Odeon of Athens. This drawing was published in 1672, as a reconstruction of the Amphitheater of Verona. However, the same drawing had been published even earlier, in Hieronymus Mercurialis' "De Arte Gymnastica".

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments, Theatres

Map of Athens. The author notes some of the most important monuments of the city.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Aqueduct of Hadrian /Dexameni (Athens), Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Hadrian's Arch (Athens), Houses, Lycabettus, Maps, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Parthenon, Roman monuments, Roman theatres, Roman Εmperors, Theatres

The Propylaea of Acropolis of Athens: 1. Plan. 2. Section of the Propylaea eastwards and imaginary representation of the monument of Agrippa.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Monument of Agrippa, Plans and drawings, Propylaea of the Acropolis

View of the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens. Drawings of some of the architectural and decorative elements of the monument.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Plans and drawings

Drawings of some architectural and decorative elements of Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Plan of Erechtheion. Drawings of some architectural and decorative elements of the monument.

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

View of Erechtheion. Drawings of some architectural and decorative elements of the monument.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

1, 2, 3: View of Hadrian's Arch and drawings of some of its architectural and decorative elements. 4, D, E: View of the Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta) in Athens. Architectural and decorative elements of the monument.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Doric order, Greece, Hadrian, Hadrian's Arch (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors

1, 2: Plan of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, together with drawings of its capitals, columns and base of the column. 3, 4: Capital, column and base of the column from Delos.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Greece, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Plans and drawings

1, 4, 5: Drawings of architectural elements of Hadrian's Library in Athens. 2, 3: Plan of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, and plan of its court.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Greece, Hadrian, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors

View and plan of the Choregic monument of Lysicrates, together with architectural drawings of some of the elements of the monument.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Greece, Plans and drawings

Drawings of several architectural and decorative elements of the Parthenon.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Central Greece, Greece, Greek mythology, Metopes, Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Plan of the Parthenon together with drawings of some its architectural elements.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Greece, Greek mythology, Parthenon, Pediments, Plans and drawings

Drawings of several architectural and decorative elements from the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion) in Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Battle scenes, Centauromachy, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Frieze of the temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Greece, Greek mythology, Metopes, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Theseus

Composition: The Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa) together with the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Natural environment, Ottomans, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Ruins, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Composition: The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) together with the Temple of Apollo in Ancient Corinth.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Corinth, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Human types, Natural environment, Ottomans, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Apollo (Ancient Corinth)

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