Pictures from a recent trip to Greece

[Bryaxis Hecatee]

Hello everyone. I just came back three hours ago from 10 days in Athens where I took some hundreds pictures ( something between 900 and 1000 in fact ) of various monuments and museums :

 

Athens :

 

- Acropolis ( southern side and main site )

- Roman Agora

- Greek Agora

- Pnyx hill

- Hadrian's library

- Olympeion and Hardian's gate

- Acharnanian Gate and road

- Kerameikos archeological site

- National Archeological Museum

- National Epigraphical Museum

- Museum of Cycladic Art

- Museum of Byzantine and Christian Art

 

Attica :

 

- Piraeus

- Zea Theater

- Piraeus Archeological Museum

- Amphiarion of Oropos

- Sounion's cape temple

 

Ouside Attica :

 

- Ancient Corinth

- Egina island ( both the Kolonna site and the Aphaia temple )

 

and some non antiquity related pics too.

 

You can find those pictures on http://picasaweb.google.be/bryaxis and a complete account of the trip ( in french ) at www.bryaxis.be

 

Enjoy and ask any question you like.

Edited April 7, 2008 by Bryaxis Hecatee

[Segestan]

Thanks for sharing you're fine images. Hope you enjoyed you're trip , looks like a great time.

[Bryaxis Hecatee]

Indeed a very nice trip, my only regrets was the museum closing at 15h and the rain during half of the time I was in Greece. And of course the stupid idea of renting a bike to get to the Aphaia temple which is on top of a very very high hill !

 

PLeased you enjoyed the pics.

[P.Clodius]

That's a nice collection in your picasa. In regard to the Ara Pacis, how close do they let you come to it?

[Gaius Paulinus Maximus]

That's a nice collection in your picasa. In regard to the Ara Pacis, how close do they let you come to it?

 

You can get as close as you like to the Ara Pacis, you can touch it, go inside, anything you want..... with in reason.

 

http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?autoco...si&img=1644

Edited April 18, 2008 by Gaius Paulinus Maximus

[Bryaxis Hecatee]

Well they let you touch it... no in fact they don't. But you can come very close to it and indeed can come inside, they haven't put any glasses in front of the sculptures and when I visited they were restoring one of the sides, for which the access is less easy. What was nice about that visit was the fact we were led by our teacher of ancient roman art, a specialist of roman scultpture : we thus had a very good presentation of the monuments, with presentation of the small tools marks and the like.