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The National Garden in central Athens, commissioned by Amalia, the first Queen of modern Greece. The National Garden [1] [2] (Greek: Εθνικός Κήπος), called the Royal Garden until 1974, [3] is a public park of 15.5 hectares (38 acres) in the center of the Greek capital, Athens.
Archaeologists have been able to recreate the layout and analyse the plants used in the garden. Roman gardens and ornamental horticulture became highly developed under Roman civilization, and thrived from 150 BC to 350 AD. [1] The Gardens of Lucullus (Horti Lucullani), on the Pincian Hill in Rome, introduced the Persian garden to Europe around ...
The Gate of Athena Archegetis is situated west side of the Roman Agora, in Athens and considered to be the second most prominent remain in the site after the Tower of the Winds. Constructed in 11 BCE by donations from Julius Caesar and Augustus , the gate was made of an architrave standing on four Doric columns and a base, all of Pentelic marble .
The Roman Agora has not today been fully excavated, but is known to have been an open space surrounded by a peristyle. To its south was a fountain. To its south was a fountain. To its west, behind a marble colonnade, were shops and a Doric propylon (entrance), the Gate of Athena Archegetis .
The Cave Sanctuaries of the Acropolis of Athens are the natural fissures in the rock of the Acropolis hill that were used as sites of worship for deities of the Panhellenic pantheon in antiquity. Traditionally a sharp distinction has been drawn between the state religion practised on the summit of the Acropolis and the cult practice of the ...
'Networks and church building in the Aegean: Crete, Cyprus, Lycia and the Peloponnese' in Annual of the British School at Athens vol. 112 (November 2017) pp. 207–266; The Mosaics of Roman Crete: Art, Archaeology and Social Change (Cambridge University Press, 2013) [16] [17] (ed.) Roman Colonies in the First Century of Their Foundation (Oxbow ...
A music group directed by scholar Annie Bélis, dedicated to the recreation of ancient Greek and Roman music and playing instruments rebuilt on archaeological reference. In its recording D'Euripide aux premiers chretiens: musique de l'antiquité grecque et romaine, the band plays both Roman and Greek kitharas.
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Greek: Ωδείο Ηρώδου του Αττικού; also called Herodeion or Herodion; [1] Greek: Ηρώδειο) is a stone Roman theatre [2] structure located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece. The building was completed in AD 161 and then renovated in 1950.