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Mycenae, Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece.
Mycenae In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization; a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, the Cyclades, and parts of southwest Anatolia. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae. At its peak in 1350 BC, the citadel and lower town had a population of 30,000 and an area of 32 hectares.
King Agamemnon ruled here during the heyday of the city. During 1285 BC he mounted an expedition to Troy with others from neighbouring kingdoms, including his brother Menelaus, leading to the ten year siege and destruction of that city.
When Agamemnon returned to Greece things had changed, power had shifted, and the growing population exceeded the means to survive. His wife Clytemnestra stabbed the king in his bath to grab power for her and her lover, Aegisthus. However all did not go well as the whole region suffered the decline of the late Bronze Age.
Within a short time around 1200 BC, all the palace complexes of southern Greece were burned, including that at Mycenae.
• The Lion Gate The majestic entrance to the citadel of Mycenae is topped with the double lion and column statue, one of the earliest examples of what we today would call a coat of arms, a regal signature in stone. This artifact and the Cyclopean walls around it were excavated in 1841 by Greek archaeologist, Kyriakos Psistakis.
Photographic Information
Taken on 11th August, 1991 at 1310hrs with a Pentax ME Super 35mm SLR through a Pentax-M 40-80mm ƒ/2.8 zoom lens onto Kodak Ektachrome ASA 200 colour reversal film, processed in Kodak E-6 chemicals by Turner's of Newcastle. Slide scanned on an Epson Photo 4490 scanner then post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5.
© Timothy Pickford-Jones 2019
Epidaurus (Modern Greek: Ἐπίδαυρος) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. The modern town Epidavros (Επίδαυρος), part of the prefecture of Argolis, was built near the ancient site.
Epidaurus was independent of Argos and not included in Argolis until the time of the Romans. With its supporting territory, it formed the small territory called Epidauria. Reputed to be the birthplace of Apollo's son Asclepius, the healer, Epidaurus was known for his sanctuary situated about five miles (8 km) from the town, as well as its theater, which is once again in use today. The cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus is attested in the 6th century BC, when the older hill-top sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas was no longer spacious enough.
There were two other similarly named Greek cities. One Epidaurus, colony in Illyria and another Epidaurus, Limera in Lakonia.
The asclepieion at Epidaurus was the most celebrated healing center of the Classical world, the place where ill people went in the hope of being cured. To find out the right cure for their ailments, they spent a night in the enkoimitiria, a big sleeping hall. In their dreams, the god himself would advise them what they had to do to regain their health. Found in the sanctuary, there was a guest house for 160 guestrooms. There are also mineral springs in the vicinity which may have been used in healing.
Asclepius, the most important healer god of antiquity, brought prosperity to the sanctuary, which in the 4th and 3rd century BC embarked on an ambitious building program for enlarging and reconstruction of monumental buildings. Fame and prosperity continued throughout the Hellenistic period. In 87 BC the sanctuary was looted by the Roman general Sulla, and in 67 BC, it was plundered by pirates. In the 2nd century AD, the sanctuary enjoyed a new upsurge under the Romans, but in AD 395 the Goths raided the sanctuary.
Even after the introduction of Christianity and the silencing of the oracles, the sanctuary at Epidauros was still known as late as the mid 5th century, although as a Christian healing center.
Theatre
The prosperity brought by the Asklepieion enabled Epidauros to construct civic monuments too: the huge theatre that delighted Pausanias for its symmetry and beauty, which is used once again for dramatic performances, the ceremonial Hestiatoreion (banqueting hall), baths and a palaestra. The theater was designed by Polykleitos the Younger in the 4th century BC. The original 34 rows were extended in Roman times by another 21 rows. As is usual for Greek theatres (and as opposed to Roman ones), the view on a lush landscape behind the skênê is an integral part of the theatre itself and is not to be obscured. It seats up to 15,000 people.
The theatre is marveled for its exceptional acoustics, which permit almost perfect intelligibility of unamplified spoken word from the proscenium or skênê to all 15,000 spectators, regardless of their seating. Famously, tour guides have their groups scattered in the stands and show them how they can easily hear the sound of a match struck at center-stage. A 2007 study by Nico F. Declercq and Cindy Dekeyser of the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that the astonishing acoustic properties are either the result of an accident or the product of advanced design: The rows of limestone seats filter out low-frequency sounds, such as the murmur of the crowd, and amplify/reflect high-frequency sounds from the stage.
This photograph was taken by Nicholson Museum curator William J Woodhouse in Greece between 1890 and 1935.
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About the archive:
The Nicholson Museum holds over 1800 glass-plate negatives taken by Woodhouse while in Greece in 1890s and early 1900s. A small portion of the archive also includes photographs of his family in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. The collection documents important archaeological sites, significant landscapes of the Greek mainland, contemporary buildings and the people he met along the way. His archive is a rich resource capturing many sites pre-archaeological excavation and before modern industrial development. Some of the photographs were published by Woodhouse in his book 'Aetolia: its geography, topography, and antiquities' published in 1897. His desire to capture Greece on 'film', was simply put in his introduction: "History only attains its full value by borrowing actuality from geography and topography". The archive shows his love not only for the sites but also for the people and spirit of Greece.
About the project:
We are asking you to contribute to our documentation of this collection and assist us with the identification of the hundreds of different monuments and places in Greece. The title of each photograph will include the museum registration number (NM2007.##.##) and may already include a place name where museum staff or Woodhouse himself have titled the image.
All of our flikr contributors will be acknowledged when the collection is published through our online collections at the completion of the project.
Nafplio (or Nafplion) is a small town in Peloponnese (Greece). Many times it is also referenced as Nauplio, Nauplia or Nafplia. The name is the remnant of the old venetian name Napoli di Romania, from the greek "nea poli"="new town" of Romania, the name of the area during the late byzantine times. A lovely romantic downtown with cozy streets, a great place to stay for radial travelling around Peloponnese.
One of the best characteristics of Nafplio is that everything in the Old Town is within walking distance. In fact you can walk from one end to another in less than 15’, and that’s why you can see couples in love, happy kids, and large groups of friends everywhere in the town, at the port, in the alleys, always walking around and enjoying every part of the town. Because of the small distances and the paved ways, there are few areas cars are allowed to pass, and there is no bus service in the old part of town, only the central station that takes you to the new part of the town and the rest of the prefecture. So, leave the car in the parking and enjoy walking around Nafplio all year round. Alternatively, you can take the horse carriage or the small train for a tour in the town.
Greece is hot during the summer and it was nice to get out of the sun and explore some of the underground passageways. Mycenae is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is a site dating back to the 7th century BC.
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Obverse: Wolf's head left. Reverse: Large letter: A. Below, helmet. (See media screen for inscription.)
Provenance
By date unknown: in the collection of an English clergyman (now MFA 65.636-65.870); about 1963: collection purchased at auction in London by Robert E. Hecht, Jr.; collection purchased by MFA from Robert E. Hecht, Jr., June 9,1965
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Greek, Late Classical or Hellenistic Period, 350–228 B.C.
Mint
Argos, Argolis (Peloponnesos)
Dimensions
Diameter: 13.5 mm. Weight: 2.47 gm. Die Axis: 8
Accession Number
65.763
Medium or Technique
Bronze
ARGOLIS, Argos. Circa 420/10 BC. Diobol (Silver, 2.13 g 6). Corinthian helmet to right. Rev. Corinthian helmet facing with Α to right; all within incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos 1036 (this coin). BMC 29 = Traité III, 613 pl. CCXV, 9. SNG Copenhagen 20 var. Very rare and beautifully toned. Extremely fine.
From the BCD Collection, LHS 96, 8 May 2006, 1036, ex Münzen und Medaillen 85, 11 April 1997, 95 and M&M FPL 139, October 1954, 16.
This very rare coin seems to commemorate a short-live alliance between Argos and Corinth.
NOMOS2, 91
In the introduction to this album, first published in 1916, the author,Ernst Reisinger, states his intention of offering a work that is not strictly a travel account but that will strengthen the bonds between Greece and Germany. With ninety photographs by himself, F. Boissonnas and Van Lüpke, and reproductions of engravings by V.M. Coronelli, E. Dodwell, J. Stuart and N. Revett, and L.-E.-S.-J. de Laborde, as well as scholarly texts by L. Ross, E. Curtius and others, which treat the subject of Greece in depth, Reisinger aims to offer a token of love to the Greek people. He collected his material from libraries in Munich and Berlin during the First World War. Many reproductions in the volume come from photographs in the Prussian Photographic Archive in Berlin and present rare views (of around 1910) of mainly continental Greece and the islands.
On browsing through the album, we come upon views from Athens and Attica, Corinth, the Argolid, Arcadia and Messinia, Epirus, Mount Athos, the Ionian Islands, Aegina and the Cyclades. It is moving to see the Isthmus of Corinth, Bassae, Sparta and Mystras, Methana, Tiryns, Eleusis and Epidaurus, Hosios Loukas, Meteora, the Byzantine churches in Arta, Melos, Tempe, Paros, Agrinio and Amphissa, in unbiased shots from the first decade of the twentieth century. It should be noted that the photographs of Corinth were taken before the excavations of the American School, and those in Olympia and Delphi before the restoration of the respective temples at these archaeological sites.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou
İlk baskısı 1916 yılında yapılan kitap, kendi fotoğraflarından ve Fr. Boissonnas ile Van Lüpke'nin 90 fotoğrafı, V.M. Coronelli, Ed. Dodwell, J. Stuart & N. Revett, L.-E.-S.-J. de Laborde'dan gravür kopyaları, L. Ross, Er. Curtius ve başka yazarların kaleminden çıkmış metinlerle tamamlanıyor. Reisinger malzemesini I. Dünya Savaşı sırasında Münih ve Berlin kütüphanelerinden derlemişti. Burada yer alan fotoğrafların birçoğu Berlin'deki Prusya fotoğraf arşivinden kaynaklanıp özellikle Yunanistan'ın anakara kısmından ve de adalardan tahminen 1910 yılına ait nadir görüntüler sergilemekte.
Albümde Atina, Attika, Korint, Argolis, Mesinia, Epir, Aynaroz, İyon adaları, Egina ve Siklad adalarından manzaralar görmekteyiz. Korint kanalı, Vassai, Sparta, Mistras (Mezistre), Methana, Tirins, Eleusis, Epidaurus, aziz Luka manastırı, Meteora, Arta, Milos, Tempi'deki bizans kiliseleri, Paros adası, Agrinio ve Amfisa'yı gösteren bu resimler 20. yüzyılın ilk yıllarında tarafsız bir anlayışla çekilmiş olması açısından derin izlenimler yaratıyorlar. Korint'te çekilmiş olan planlar Amerikan Arkeoloji Okulunun yaptığı kazılardan önceye ve Olympia ile Delfi'de çekilmiş olan planlar bu arkeolojik sitlerde bulunan antik tapınakların restorasyonundan önceki zamana rastlar.
Yazan: İoli Vingopoulou
Epidaurus (Modern Greek: Ἐπίδαυρος) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. The modern town Epidavros (Επίδαυρος), part of the prefecture of Argolis, was built near the ancient site.
Epidaurus was independent of Argos and not included in Argolis until the time of the Romans. With its supporting territory, it formed the small territory called Epidauria. Reputed to be the birthplace of Apollo's son Asclepius, the healer, Epidaurus was known for his sanctuary situated about five miles (8 km) from the town, as well as its theater, which is once again in use today. The cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus is attested in the 6th century BC, when the older hill-top sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas was no longer spacious enough.
There were two other similarly named Greek cities. One Epidaurus, colony in Illyria and another Epidaurus, Limera in Lakonia.
The asclepieion at Epidaurus was the most celebrated healing center of the Classical world, the place where ill people went in the hope of being cured. To find out the right cure for their ailments, they spent a night in the enkoimitiria, a big sleeping hall. In their dreams, the god himself would advise them what they had to do to regain their health. Found in the sanctuary, there was a guest house for 160 guestrooms. There are also mineral springs in the vicinity which may have been used in healing.
Asclepius, the most important healer god of antiquity, brought prosperity to the sanctuary, which in the 4th and 3rd century BC embarked on an ambitious building program for enlarging and reconstruction of monumental buildings. Fame and prosperity continued throughout the Hellenistic period. In 87 BC the sanctuary was looted by the Roman general Sulla, and in 67 BC, it was plundered by pirates. In the 2nd century AD, the sanctuary enjoyed a new upsurge under the Romans, but in AD 395 the Goths raided the sanctuary.
Even after the introduction of Christianity and the silencing of the oracles, the sanctuary at Epidauros was still known as late as the mid 5th century, although as a Christian healing center.
Theatre
The prosperity brought by the Asklepieion enabled Epidauros to construct civic monuments too: the huge theatre that delighted Pausanias for its symmetry and beauty, which is used once again for dramatic performances, the ceremonial Hestiatoreion (banqueting hall), baths and a palaestra. The theater was designed by Polykleitos the Younger in the 4th century BC. The original 34 rows were extended in Roman times by another 21 rows. As is usual for Greek theatres (and as opposed to Roman ones), the view on a lush landscape behind the skênê is an integral part of the theatre itself and is not to be obscured. It seats up to 15,000 people.
The theatre is marveled for its exceptional acoustics, which permit almost perfect intelligibility of unamplified spoken word from the proscenium or skênê to all 15,000 spectators, regardless of their seating. Famously, tour guides have their groups scattered in the stands and show them how they can easily hear the sound of a match struck at center-stage. A 2007 study by Nico F. Declercq and Cindy Dekeyser of the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that the astonishing acoustic properties are either the result of an accident or the product of advanced design: The rows of limestone seats filter out low-frequency sounds, such as the murmur of the crowd, and amplify/reflect high-frequency sounds from the stage.
Mylon Rail Station is a train station in Myloi, Argolis. The station opened in 1886 and closed for most trains in 2010. At present, it is served by excursion trains while it remains inactive on other routes.
The entrance.
This modest pyramid in Argolis is the best preserved of the few visible in Greece. With its internal chamber and entrance passage, it's hard to avoid the obvious interpretation of it as a tomb. It is mentioned by the traveller and writer Pausanias (2nd century AD) as being associated with legends of some 3000 years previously. However, many modern scholars date it to merely 4th century BC.
Off the tourist trail but not hard to find. One other solitary photographer turned up just after me and we did a sort of dance round it, keeping out of each other's shots.