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Black-figure and red-figure vases from Athens.

A caravan of women leaves Athens.

Pericles surrounded by Athenian women lamenting the death of Themistocles (imaginary representation).

Themistocles sends Mardonius away from Athens, before the battle of Plataeae in 479 BCE (imaginary representation).

Theramenes is arrested on the orders of Critias.

Athens seen from the ancient Sacred Way. In the middleground, the Acropolis. In the background, Mount Hymettus.

View of Athens from the rocks of Piraeus.

View of Athens in the late 19th century.

The Parthenon at the time of Pericles (Imaginary reconstruction).

The grave stele of Aristion, discovered in Velanideza, Attica and kept at the Archaelogical Museum of Athens.

Busts of Miltiades and Themistocles.

Relief of young man from the Parthenon frieze.

The flower market of ancient Athens (imaginary representation).

Imaginary reconstruction of the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos and adjacent area, Athens.

Imaginary reconstruction of the Agora of ancient Athens.

Two Athenians conversing.

Imaginary reconstruction of Athens at the age of emperor Hadrian. View from the east.

View of Pnyx hill.

View of Athens with Aegina island in the distance, from the Acropolis.

Imaginary reconstruction of the Acropolis of Athens.

Oxen led to sacrifice, drawing after the reliefs on the northern frieze of the Parthenon.

Women at the Panathenaean procession, drawing after the reliefs on the eastern frieze of the Parthenon.

Cavalry, drawing after the reliefs on the frieze of the Parthenon, today at the British Museum, London.

Drawing of the stele of Mika and Dion from Kerameikos cemetery, Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Imaginary reconstruction of Dipylon, the entrance to the cemetery of Kerameikos.

Imaginary reconstruction of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.

Imaginary reconstruction of the Erechtheion at the Acropolis of Athens.

Imaginary reconstruction of the interior of the Parthenon.

Caryatid, from the southern side of the Erechtheion.