Dance - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

View of Eceabat (anc. Madytos) in Gelibolu Peninsula.

The Hippodrome of Constantinople.

Harem lady.

View of Joannina, from the island of the lake.

Greek ladies of Istanbul dancing.

Greek wedding.

Greek dance (Tripoudi or Terpoudia).

Gulf of Lepanto, from above Patras. Ancient Patrae.

Plain of Orchomenos from Livadia.

Crissa on Mount Parnassus. Looking up the vale of Salona anciently Amphessa.

The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, from the sanctuary of Ilissus. In the foreground women dancing.

View of the Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Athens

View of Kadıköy. In the background Maiden's Tower and part of the Seraglio Point.

View of Kandili on the Asiatic shores of the Bosporus. In the foreground, Ottoman women dancing. On the left the Anatolian Castle.

View of Kandili on the Asiatic shores of the Bosporus. In the foreground some Ottoman men are dancing, while others are enjoying their coffee.

View of Büyükdere, on the European shores of the Bosporus. In the foreground, Ottoman men dancing on a boat.

Composition: Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens together with the port of Faliro, close to Piraeus.

Dance on the west bank of the Nile. On the foreground, two French travellers. The governors of the small vessels are smoking and drinking coffee while sitting on the ground, as are doing two dervishes and their servants farther away. According to Olivier's description, the scene depicts Egyptians dancing a war dance and a more sensual dance.