Picture Post 14

THIS IS ATHENS!!!!!

Probably the most famous piece of Greek art, it's either Poseidon throwing a trident or Zeus throwing a lightning bolt



The temple of Olympian Zeus (the Northeast corner anyway)

Here's a perspective view so you can see how massive it was

These are Persian arrows found at Thermopylae, possibly in enough numbers to blot out the sun

The Roman agora, but not much left here

Temple of Hephaestos, probably the most intact Greek temple

This used to be an ancient shopping mall, but it was refurbished into a museum

The Olympic stadium that was the site of the first modern Olympic games

This is the only view of the Parthenon on the Acropolis where you cannot see scaffolding

Here's what it actually looked like everywhere else

The Acropolis has lots of rubble strewn about or placed together in piles

The Odeon (theater) of Herodes Atticus, once used for ancient musical concerts, and now famous for Yanni Live at the Acropolis, the second best-selling music video of all time

Greek churches are really small, which was quite different from everywhere else I've visited

The whole Acropolis

On this stage Demosthenes once orated to his audiences

A guard at the Ministry of Silly Walks (Monty Python reference)

The Temple of Apollo at Delphi where the Oracle once resided

The Stoa of the Athenians

A lot of the carvings were removed from the buildings and tranferred to museums for preservation. They were also all quite violent.

Sunset over Athens