We went a lot of places in Athens. I didn't take pictures of everything, tho. Many of them -- the Parthenon -- have been photographed to death, and many of the museums prohibit photography. Ah, well.
These are the best of the best pictures from Athens and the noteworthy places there.
Athens as seen from the Acropolis
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Poppies grow everywhere in Greece. The Greeks have much better weeds than
I do.
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Texture shot of the top of a fallen column drum.
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Near the Acropolis is a ruined house with a mosaic on the floor.
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The best-preservred caryatid at the Erechtheion.
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Looking down at the Odeon of Herodus Atticus.
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The temple of Hephaestus in the Agora, as seen from the Acropolis. OK, this is a trite picture. I like it anyway.
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The Agora and the Acropolis as seen from the front of the temple of
Hephaestus.
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A column drum holding up the temple of Hephaestus. Despite what it
looks like, it wasn't damaged by being hit solidly. The damage is
compression spalling, due to an earthquake strong enough to make the
whole temple bounce up and down. When the roof and higher drums came
down, they squeezed this drum hard enough to make pieces of it fly
off.
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The Numismatic Museum has a rare find: the first coin depicting the face of
a politician.
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the front of a cabinet at the Numismatic Museum
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Places in Athens with lots of pictures: the Agora, and the Numismatic Museum the Acropolis. I took lots of pictures at the Acropolis, so I divided them up into details and textures, photos of distant subjects, the ruined house, the Erechtheion, and a few details of the Parthenon,
Outdoor pictures of Athens
