Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Ten early photographs of Athens
View through CrossRef
These photographs of Athens are included in a collection made by Field Marshal Sir John Lintorn Simmons, RE. From internal evidence they appear to date to 1853. They include evidence for the Acropolis and its monuments at that date, as well as a general view of Athens and Lykabettos, the temple of Olympian Zeus, and the choregic monument of Lysicrates (along with the ruins of the Capuchin monastery).
Title: Ten early photographs of Athens
Description:
These photographs of Athens are included in a collection made by Field Marshal Sir John Lintorn Simmons, RE.
From internal evidence they appear to date to 1853.
They include evidence for the Acropolis and its monuments at that date, as well as a general view of Athens and Lykabettos, the temple of Olympian Zeus, and the choregic monument of Lysicrates (along with the ruins of the Capuchin monastery).
Related Results
Modified Bottle Cap for Improving Children’s Arithmetic Ability
Modified Bottle Cap for Improving Children’s Arithmetic Ability
The preliminary study showed that the main problem, however, faced by kindergarten students are lack of mathematics skill, such arithmetic ability in kindergarten Galis. Therefore,...
AN EXAMINATION OF THE ATHENIAN IMPERIAL POLICIES TO CONTROL THE ECONOMIC AUTONOMY OF COLONIES AND ALLIED STATES IN THE 5TH CENTURY BCE AS DISCLOSED BY THUCYDIDES
AN EXAMINATION OF THE ATHENIAN IMPERIAL POLICIES TO CONTROL THE ECONOMIC AUTONOMY OF COLONIES AND ALLIED STATES IN THE 5TH CENTURY BCE AS DISCLOSED BY THUCYDIDES
Thucydides’ (460-400 BCE) record of history on the Peloponnesian War which happened during the 5th century BCE provide an extensive account on the Classical Athenian Empire. By c...
Theseus at Colonus
Theseus at Colonus
Abstract
The previous chapter traced the influence of Athenian ideals on Euripides’ reinvention of the myth of Heracles’ madness. Theseus’ encounter with Heracles is...
The Archaic wall of Athens: reality or myth?
The Archaic wall of Athens: reality or myth?
This paper reviews the philological and archaeological evidence for an Archaic, pre-Persian, city wall of Athens, and concludes that there was no Archaic enceinte separate from the...
Plutarch and Thebes
Plutarch and Thebes
Chapter 10 examines Plutarch’s account of Theban fifth- and fourth-century history in the Moralia and a number of Lives, focussing on the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War and th...
Leo von Klenzes Konzept für die Gestaltung des Hauptmarktes von Athen
Leo von Klenzes Konzept für die Gestaltung des Hauptmarktes von Athen
Abstract
The architect Leo von Klenze was invited by the Greek government to modify the map of Athens of the architects Stamatios Kleanthes and Eduard Schaubert in 1...
After Pericles: The Decline of Athens?
After Pericles: The Decline of Athens?
This chapter considers the notion that Pericles' death marked the starting point of Athens's decadence. In
The Peloponnesian War
, Thucydide...