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Man and woman wearing the himation Kylix, the most common drinking vessel in ancient Greece The Parthenon, shows the common structural features of Ancient Greek architecture: crepidoma, columns, entablature, and pediment Ancient Greek theatre in Delos Odeon of Herodes Atticus Portrait of Demosthenes, statesman and orator of ancient Athens
The city of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athênai [a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯]; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine [a.ˈθi.ne̞] or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα, Athina [a.'θi.na]) during the classical period of ancient Greece (480–323 BC) [1] was the major urban centre of the notable polis of the same name, located in Attica ...
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Plan of the Ancient Agora of Athens in the Roman Imperial period (ca. 150 AD). The Stoa Poikile ( Ancient Greek : ἡ ποικίλη στοά , hē poikílē stoá ) or Painted Portico was a Doric stoa (a covered walkway or portico) erected around 460 BC on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens .
Mapping Ancient Athens is a project by a Greek non-profit Dipylon, launched in 2021, that aims to map and provide an interactive digital portal to explore the archaeological remains and historical data from more than 1500 rescue excavations conducted across Athens over the past 160 years. The project created a searchable map interface that ...
The Athena and Ares might have stood at the end of the cella as the main cult images of the sanctuary, perhaps flanked by the two images of Aphrodite mentioned by Pausanias. [126] These have been identified with two female torsos (inv. S 1882 and S 378) found in the post-Herulian wall with architectural fragments of the temple.
Piraeus Apollo.Archaic-style bronze. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. The Piraeus Apollo is an ancient Greek bronze sculpture in the archaic style from the 2nd or 1st century BC [1] (or possibly an earlier work dating 4th or 3rd century BC [2]), exhibited now at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Athens.
Athena, central figure of the pediment of the temple, Acropolis Museum, Akr. 631. The Old Temple of Athena or the Archaios Neos [1] (Greek: Ἀρχαῖος Νεώς) was an archaic Greek limestone Doric temple on the Acropolis of Athens probably built in the second half of the sixth-century BCE, and which housed the xoanon of Athena Polias. [2]