#parthenon
Birth of Athena (detail). Athena and Zeus.
Reconstruction of the east pediment of the Parthenon according to drawing by Karl Schwerzek (1896).
Athena has just emerged from Zeus’s skull fully armed and equipped. She is looking at him. The King of the Gods is looking back at her amazed and surprised. Nike is intending to put a wreath on the head of a newborn goddess. On the right, Hephaestus can be seen holding an axe with which he split Zeus’s skull.
ACROPOLIS MUSEUM, ATHENS, GREECE
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TravelGram: kalispera athina, kalispera ellada
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Stoa of Attalos - Columns for Days!
Did you know the Stoa of Attalos was built between 159 BC - 138 BC. The impressive columns measured over 116 m long and 20 m deep, with two rows of 45 columns. It was used to house shops and businesses for the Athenians. Some say it was the first ancient shopping centre! - SeenByNina
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Porch of the Caryatids (Maidens)
“Athens, you beauty! Look past the ancient civilisations and discover the exciting cosmopolitan city within. You won’t be disappointed”
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Hadrian’s Library ️☕
“It’s impossible not to fall in love with Hadrian’s Library, and the modern museum hidden among the beautiful ruins” - sabrinaburgess
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Kaliméra!
If someone asked me what my favourite colour is, I would say the colour of the Parthenon stone at sunset. patriciaizquierdomaldonado
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West pediment of the Parthenon.
Author: Phidias, sculptor of the Acropolis of Athens.
440-432 BC.
Currently preserved at the British Museum in London.
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Centaurs and Lapiths.
From the South Metopes of Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens (Greece), c. 5th century BC.
The metopes on the south side of the Parthenon showed the contest between Centaurs and Lapiths. Centaurs were half men and half horse and Lapiths were an Aeolian tribe. The contest was won by Lapiths but there were many Lapiths who were also killed in this battle.
Centauromachy was the mythical war between Centaurs and Lapiths.
Currently preserved at the British Museum.
Source: British Museum.
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InTowards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier expresses his fanboyism for the Parthenon as an object of modernity, admiring its “audacity for square mouldings”, “austere profiles” and “doric morality”.
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George Hoyningen-Huene,
Columns of the Parthenon seen through a breach in the North wall, Acropolis, Athens, c. 1938,
Gelatin Silver print,
Other: 9 3/16 x 9 1/8 in. (23.3 x 23.2 cm)
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The Parthenon, Athens, Greece
aesthetic one first, and the less aesthetic (but beautifully brilliant) original
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Athens, Greece
November 2017
1) A street in Athens
2) Parthenon
3) Panathenaic Stadium
4) Mount Lycabettus from the Acropolis
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The Parthenon. Right? Wrong! This is a facsimile built out of butter and coral after Napoleon’s troops exploded the original Parthenon by storing gunpowder in it. But come on, it’s still pretty old. What’s the difference, am I right?
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The Torment (Flaying) of Marsyas - 1st or 2nd century Roman copy of 3rd century BC Hellenistic sculpture
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