Art and antiquities (4912 Subjects)
The “cave of Homer” near Izmir.
The column of Pompey (triumphal column of Diocletian) in Alexandria.
The Erechtheion. Engraving from the edition of James Stuart and Nicholas Revett.
View of the Capuchin convent, close to the Choregic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens. Engraving by David Le Roy.
Leonidas in the battle of Thermopylae, according to the painting by Jacques Louis David.
Scene from the performance of Aeschylus' Suppliants, in the ancient theatre of Delphi during the Delphic festival of 1930.
View of the theatre of Deplhi the day of the performance of Aeschylus' Suppliants in the Delphic festival of 1930.
View of Temple of Apollo at Ancient Corinth. Acrocorinth in the background.
View of the Acropolis from Areopagus.
Plan of the Parthenon as a Christian church.
Tower of Beulé.
The Acropolis in 1670.
Plan and section plan of the Acropolis.
Northern slope of the Acropolis.
The cave of Pan.
Plan of the Acropolis.
The fountain of Clepsydra.
Reconstruction of the direction of the “Pelasgian wall”.
Traces of the Pelasgian wall.
Plan of the Peisistratid Temple of Athena and of the Erechtheion.
Reconstruction of the southwestern angle of the Parthenon.
The pediment of the archaic temple. Heracles killing the Lernaean Hydra.
Kore from the Acropolis Museum (Acr. 675).
The deposition pit between Erechtheion and the Propylaea. Archaic votive offerings, buried after the destruction of the temples by the Persians in 480 BCE, were discovered in the pit.
The back of archaic Kore from the Acropolis Museum (Acr. 675).
Relief of the Sacrifice of a Pig. A family (parents and three children) advances towards the Goddess Athena, offering a female pig for sacrifice. From the Acropolis Museum (Acr. 581).
Kore of Euthydicus (Acr. 686).
Head of archaic bronze statue.
The crepidoma of the Parthenon.
The curves of the Parthenon.