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View of the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina.

Tags: Aegina, Ancient gods / deities, Ancient temples, Argo-Saronic gulf, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Ruins, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Views

View of Nafplio. On the left Palamidi, on the right the Bourtzi.

Tags: Acronauplia, Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Boats and ships, Bourtzi (Nafplio), Carriages, Greece, Nafplio, Natural environment, Palamidi, Peloponnese, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Views

Fig. 1. Rock-cut mausoleum in Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor. Fig. 2. Lanscape at the Gulf of Saint Paul, in Lindos (Rhodes).

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bay of Agios Pavlos (Lindos), Boats and ships, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Greece, Islands, Lindos, Lycia, Mausoleums, Rhodes, Views

View of the medieval city of Rhodes. On the right the Naillac Tower, constructed during the era of the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller Philibert de Naillac, hence its name, and demolished in the mid-19th century.

The ruins of the Thermae of Gaius Xenophon (Kos) at the Asclepion of Kos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Asclepion (Kos), Dodecanese, Greece, Islands, Kos, Natural environment, Ruins, Thermae of Gaius Xenophon (Kos)

The central square of the city of Kos with the Plane tree of Hippocrates.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Birds, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Greece, Houses, Islands, Kos, Ottoman architecture, Plane tree of Hippocrates, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

Ancient reliefs from the island of Kos. On the first (left top), Zeus, Hera and Hercules. On the second (right top), Apollo with the Muses. On the third (bottom left), Hercules with the Lion of Nemea. On the fourth (bottom right), the contest of Apollo with the Satyr Marsyas.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Dodecanese, Greece, Greek mythology, Islands, Kos, Reliefs

The ruins of the Temple of Hera on Samos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Greece, Heraion of Samos, Human types, Islands, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Natural environment, Ruins, Rural houses, Samos, Views

Title page. Scenes from the author's trip to the Mediterranean.

Modern Greek air.

Tags: Cultural activities, Greece, Ionian islands, Music, Songs

Map of Zakynthos.

Tags: Greece, Ionian islands, Maps, Zakynthos

Fig. 1. Inscription from Lefkada. Fig. 2. Seat-like stone from the School of Homer (Agios Athanasios), Ithaca. Fig. 3. Capital of column found near Skala, Cephalonia. Fig. 4. Part of wall from the ruins at Aetos, Ithaca.

Tags: Aetos (Ithaca), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cephalonia, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionian islands, Ithaca, Lefkada, School of Homer / Agios Athanasios (Ithaca)

Part of ancient wall in Sami, Cephalonia

Tags: Acropoleis of Sami, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cephalonia, Greece, Human types, Ionian islands, Sami, Walls

Ruins from the site of the Acropolis of Sami on Cephalonia island.

Tags: Acropoleis of Sami, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cephalonia, Greece, Ionian islands, Sami

Map of Cephalonia.

Tags: Cephalonia, Greece, Ionian islands, Maps

Ruins of the polygonal walls of the Acropolis on Aetos Hill, on Ithaca.

Tags: Acropoleis, Aetos (Ithaca), Architecture and built environment, Greece, Ionian islands, Ithaca

Ruins of the polygonal walls of the Acropolis on Aetos Hill, on Ithaca.

Tags: Acropoleis, Aetos (Ithaca), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Ionian islands, Ithaca

The Roman Theater of Nicopolis, in Epirus.

Tags: Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Epirus, Greece, Mules, Nicopolis (Epirus), Preveza, Roman monuments, Roman theatre of Nicopolis

Ruins of a square building at the ancient walls of Lefkada.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Ionian islands, Lefkada, Shoes and footwear, Weapons

Ruins of ancient walls at Lefkada.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Ionian islands, Lefkada, Women

Map of Lefkada.

Tags: Greece, Ionian islands, Lefkada, Maps, Meganisi island

Map of Corfu.

Tags: Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Maps

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

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

Map of Partheni port on Leros, together with part of Archangelos islet.

Tags: Aegean islands, Archangelos islet (Leros), Greece, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Leros, Maps, Partheni (Leros), Ports

Map of the port of Leros with the forest and the settlement of Agia Marina.

Tags: Aegean islands, Agia Marina (Leros), Aqueducts, Castles and fortresses, Greece, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Leros, Maps, Ports

Shells of snails in natural size (a), magnified (b): from Istanbul area (1a, 1b), Crete (2,3,4,5,6,7), Chios (8,9, 11) and Kios.

Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Asia Minor, Chios, Crete, Gastropoda, Gemlik / anc. Kios, Greece, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Natural environment, Snails, Turkey

Oak of the species Quercus infectoria or similar, from whose galls ink and vegetal dye are made. Image depicts two types of galls which grow on the tree as well as the two subspecies of wasp of the Cynipidae species, which cause the galls to grow on this tree.

Tags: Cynipidae, Economic activities, Greece, Ink, Insects, Natural environment, Oak (Quercus), Plant dyes, Plants, Quercus infectoria (Aleppo oak), Turkey, Wasps

Oak of the species Quercus infectoria or similar, from whose galls ink and vegetal dye are made. Image depicts two types of galls which grow on the tree as well as the two subspecies of wasp of the Cynipidae species which cause the galls to grow on this tree.

Tags: Economic activities, Greece, Ink, Natural environment, Oak (Quercus), Plant dyes, Plants, Quercus infectoria (Aleppo oak), Turkey

Branch, leaves and acorn of oak of the species Quercus aegylops.

Tags: Greece, Natural environment, Oak (Quercus), Plants, Quercus macrolepis / Quercus aegilops (Valonia oak), Turkey

Branch, leaves and acorn of oak of the species Quercus aegylops.

Tags: Greece, Natural environment, Oak (Quercus), Plants, Quercus cerris (Turkey oak), Turkey

Women from Kimolos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Human types, Kimolos, Shoes and footwear, Spindles, Spinning, Textile manufacture, Women

Women from Chios.

Tags: Aegean islands, Baskets, Chios, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Shoes and footwear, Women

Map of the bay of Souda in Crete.

Tags: Chania, Crete, Greece, Maps, Souda

Map of Santorini.

Tags: Aegean islands, Cyclades, Greece, Maps, Santorini

Map of Milos, Kimolos and Polyaigos islands.

Tags: Aegean islands, Cyclades, Greece, Kimolos, Maps, Milos, Polyaigos island / Polyvos

Map of Greece with the Aegean islands, and of Asia Minor.

Tags: Aegean islands, Asia Minor, Greece, Maps, Turkey

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

Female costumes of Kimolos island.

Tags: Aegean sea, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cyclades, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Islands, Kimolos, Reels, Social sphere and everyday life, Textile manufacture, Women

Greek woman of the Aegean islands giving birth.

Tags: Aegean sea, Childbirth, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cyclades, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Greeks, Healthcare, Human types, Islands, Midwives, Professions, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Fig. 1. Plan of the Temple of Zeus in ancient Olympia, Greece. Fig. 2. Plan of the Temple of Temple of Apollo Epicurius in Bassae, Greece.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Temple of Zeus (Olympia)

View, plan and bottom plan of capital of Corinthian order from Milos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Cyclades, Greece, Milos, Plans and drawings

View of the castle and settlement of Exombourgo in Tinos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Coats of arms – Emblems, Cyclades, Exombourgo (Tinos), Fortress of Exombourgo (Tinos), Greece, Maps, Medieval monuments, Natural environment, Tinos, Venetian monuments, Views

Map of Dia islet in Crete.

Tags: Boats and ships, Chersonisos (Heraklion), Coats of arms – Emblems, Crete, Dia islet, Elia (Heraklion), Greece, Imaginary beings, Maps, Natural environment, Views

Map of Karteros beach in Hersonissos, Heraklion.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Chersonisos (Heraklion), Coats of arms – Emblems, Crete, Greece, Heraklion, Karteros (Heraklion), Maps, Natural environment, Views

Map of Kakon Oros in Crete.

Tags: Boats and ships, Chersonisos (Heraklion), Coats of arms – Emblems, Crete, Fish, Gournes (Heraklion), Greece, Heraklion, Imaginary beings, Kakon oros, Maps, Natural environment, Views

Map of the plain of Lasithi.

Tags: Chersonisos (Heraklion), Coats of arms – Emblems, Crete, Greece, Lasithi, Maps, Natural environment, Plain of Lasithi (Crete), Views

Map of Limenas area, in Hersonissos province, Heraklion.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Chersonisos (Heraklion), Coats of arms – Emblems, Crete, Greece, Heraklion, Houses, Limenas (Chersonissos), Maps, Views

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