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  • The church of St. George atop the hill in the distance.
  • The Church of St. George of the antennas.
  • Looking down on the area of the ancient Agora, the old city.
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  • The hills north (i think) of Athens.
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  • Oh, get over yourselves!
  • The Erechtheion
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  • The Erechtheion
  • The columns of the Erechtheion and the goddess, Tourisma, patron of the Acropolis.
  • The porch of the Caryatids, or porch of the maidens, on the southwest corner of the Erechtheion. These statues are exact replicas of the originals, five of which are in the Acropolis Museum and one in the British Museum.
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  • The Erechtheion, with the ruins of the old temple of Athena in the foreground, destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC.
  • Another brick in the wall. Many of the visitors on the hill stopped everything to watch this enormous hunk of antiquity get lifted over the columns and on to the far wall.
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  • Detail on a column fragment.
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  • The Acropolis from the Temple of Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • Remains of the Temple Of Olympian Zeus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Olympian_Zeus,_Athens
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • With cruise friends Julie and Garry at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
  • Temple of the Olympian Zeus with the Acropolis in the background.
  • Temple of Olympian Zeus. Columns are 17 meters tall
  • The arena built for the first Olympics of the modern era in 1896
  • The arena built for the first Olympics of the modern era in 1896
  • Glass sculpture
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  • U.S. Embassy, Athens
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  • Fresco fragments from Mycenae, 16th century, b.c. Most of the rest of these photos were taken at the Greek Archaeological Museum. I could easily have spent a full day there.
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  • Gold funerary adornments: headpieces, belts, arm and leg bands, etc., from Mycenae, 16th century b.c. Archaeological Museum.
  • Funerary masks and breastplates from 16th century b.c. Mycenae.
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  • Ivory carvings
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  • Those Mycenaeans must have had impressive noses.
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  • Bronze mirror and other personal grooming implements.
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  • Gold Signet rings with enlarged copies of their impressions.
  • Exquisite gold jewelry from Mycenae.
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