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Quarry in ancient Corinth.

View of Athens in the late 19th century.

The plain of Marathon.

The plain of Plataeae.

Thermopylae.

Megara and Salamis island.

Thebes. On the left, the Acropolis of Cadmea.

Imaginary reconstruction of Poros island and the emple of Athena Apatouria.

Reconstruction of the sanctuary of Poseidon in Calauria (Poros island), where Demosthenes was killed.

View of Pnyx hill.

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

View of the Crissaean plain from Delphi. In the background, the Corinthian gulf and Peloponnese.

The gorge of the Phaedriades and the Castalian spring, Delphi.

Ancient remains at the site of Delphi.

Waterfall of the Waters of the Styx, Peloponnese.

View of Mount Parnassus.

Top: Cave of Nestor, located at Palaiokastro, to the side of Voidokoilia beach. Topographical map of the adjacent area. Bottom: Ruins of the walls of ancient Pylos, incorporated into the fortifications of the Venetian fortress of Palaiokastro.

Landscape at the plain of Messene.

Landscape at Lepreum, Elis. In the background, the acropolis.

Landscape at Samicum.

Landscape at ancient Olympia.

1. Landscape at Phigaleia. 2,3. View and plan of part of the fortifications of ancient Phigaleia.

Landscape at Megalopolis, Arcadia.

Landscape at Sparta.

Mount Taygetus seen from Sparta.

1. Landscape at Mantineia. 2, 3. Plan and reconstruction of remains of ancient building on top of Ai-Giorgis hill, at the village of Loukas near Mantineia.

View of the ancient theatre of Epidaurus.

1. Cave of the oracle of Heracles Vouraikos close to Aigion 2. Medieval relief seen by the author in Aigion. 3. Ancient relief seen by the author at church in Aigion. 4. Inscription seen by the author at the now-lost church of the Presentation of the Virgin (Eisodia Theotokou), Aigion. Today a building by Ernst Ziller stands on the site of the church.

Thermopylae, engraving by Edward Lear, 1853

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