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Ancient coin of Athens. Obv. Athena. Rev. The Acropolis of Athens from the north.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Coins, Greece, Parthenon

Vase from Athens.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Attica, Greece

Map of Attica, Euboea and the Cyclades.

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

Arch of Hadrian, Athens: 1. Bottom view of the south pylon. 2. Bottom view of the north columns of the lower level. 3. Elevation of the west side of the Arch. 4. - 5. Elevation of part of the entablature of the lower and upper levels.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Corinthian order, Greece, Hadrian, Hadrian's Arch (Athens), Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors

Plan of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens. Elevation of the base of the columns.

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

1. - 4. Hadrian's Library, Athens: plan of the west side of the monument. Elevation of the west side. Elevation of entablature. Bottom view and details of the ceiling. 5. Plan of the site of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Corinthian order, Greece, Hadrian, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Roman monuments

Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta), Athens: Elevation of the monument. Elevation of the capitals and the entablature.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece, Roman Agora of Athens

Bridge over Ilissus river, Athens. In the background the site of the Panathenaic Stadium.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Bridge of Ilissus, Bridges, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Panathenaic Stadium, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life, Stadiums, Women

The Arch of Hadrian, Athens. In the background the Temple of Olympia Zeus.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Greece, Hadrian, Hadrian's Arch (Athens), Human types, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors, Social sphere and everyday life

The Monument of Philopappus, Athens

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Monument of Philopappus, Natural environment, Reliefs, Social sphere and everyday life

The Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta), Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Columns / Pillars, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece, Houses, Human types, Inscriptions, Roman Agora of Athens, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life

The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds), Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Houses, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life

The Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Choregic monuments, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life

Map of Athens and its environs.

Tags: Athens, Attica, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Maps, Mikrolimano (Tourkolimano) / anc. Port of Munichia, Port of Piraeus, Ports, Salamis

Section plan of the Choregic monument of Lysicrates.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece

View of the Choregic monument of Lysicrates.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Corinthian order, Greece, Inscriptions

Choregic monument of Lysicrates: 1. Plan of the base. 2. Plan of the ceiling.

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

The Caryatides, Erechtheion: 1. South view. 2. Entablature at the corner. 3. Crepidoma and base of the column. 4. Bottom view of the ceiling.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

1 and 2. View of capital and base of capital from Erechtheion, Athens. 3 and 4. Views of bases of columns from Erechtheion. 5. Ionian capital from Eleusis. 6 and 7. Capital and base of capital from the Theater of Marcellus, Rome. 7 and 9. Capital and base of the capital from the Temple of Portunus, Rome.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Ancient theatre of Marcellus (Rome), Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Capitals (architecture), Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Italy, Roman art, Roman theatres, Rome, Temple of Portunus / Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Rome), Theatres

Erechtheion: 1. View of Ionic capital. 2 and 3. Section plans of the helix of Ionic capital. 4. Section plan of the capital. 5. Side view of Ionian capital. 6. Bottom view of Ionian capital. 7. Bottom view of Ionian capital at the corner.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Capitals (architecture), Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

Erechtheion: 1. View and details of the window. 2. View of the entablature of the west side. 3. Column of the antae. 4. Geison.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Attica, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

West view of Erechtheion.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

Plan of Erechtheion. View of the east side of the Temple.

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

Reconstruction of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Propylaea of the Acropolis

Longitudinal section of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens (from east to west). Imaginary reconstruction of the Monument of Agrippa.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Monument of Agrippa, Propylaea of the Acropolis

Plan of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.

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

Architectural features from the Parthenon.

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

Part of the south side of the Parthenon. On the metopes scenes from Centauromachy. Interestingly, the author adds to this side a pediment as well.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon

The Parthenon: 1. Part of the east side of the temple. 2. Longitudinal section of part of the pronaos.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon

The Parthenon: 1. Plan of the temple. 2. West side of the temple. On the pediment the battle of Athena with Poseidon. On the metopes the Centauromachy. In fact, the Centauromachy is on the south side of the temple and not in the west, as the author suggests.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon, Pediments, Pediments of the Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Athens: 1. Elevation of the east side of the temple. On the metopes the Twelve Labours of Heracles. 2. Section plan of the metopes and the friezes of the temple. 3. The east (the battle of Theseus and the Pallantides) and west frieze (Centauromachy) of the temple.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Battle of Theseus and the Pallantides, Centauromachy, Frieze of the temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Greece, Greek mythology, Labours of Heracles, Labours of Theseus, Metopes, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Athens: Bottom view of the peristyle and pronaos, together with details of the ceiling.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Doric order, Greece, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Plan of the Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion) in Athens. East view of the temple.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Doric order, Greece, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Imaginary representation of Faliro.

Tags: Attica, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Faliro, Fishermen, Fishing, Greece, Human types, Nets, Professions, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life

View of the ports of Piraeus, Munichia (today Mikrolimano) and Faliro.

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

View of the Temple of Poseidon, Sounio.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life, Sounion

View of the Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion), Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Human types, Riders, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

View of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life

View of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cannons, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Weapons

Northwest view of Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Erechtheion, Greece, Greek mythology, Human types, Mosques, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Southeast view of the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Metopes, Parthenon, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Plan of the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Fortifications and fortresses, Greece, Mosque of the Parthenon, Mosques, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Roman monuments, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis), Theatres, Walls

Map of the port of Thoricus.

Tags: Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Maps, Ports, Thorikos, Views

Map of the port of Piraeus.

Tags: Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Maps, Piraeus, Port of Piraeus, Ports, Views

The entasis of various columns. Fig. 1. Entasis of the columns of the North Portico of the Erechtheion. Fig. 2: Entasis of the columns of the East Portico of that Temple. Fig. 3: Entasis of the columns of the Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion). Fig. 4: Entasis of the columns of the Parthenon. Fig. 5: Section of the capital of the centre anta of the Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Erechtheion, Greece, Parthenon, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

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