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The view through the little lights of the tourists' train, after a long exposure shot, shows the beauty of Parthenon!!!
Night shot from top of building at same elevation as Parthenon; structure in foreground is new Acropolis Museum
The Parthenon in Athens is the most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece and one of the most famous buildings in the world.
The Parthenon has stood atop the Acropolis of Athens for nearly 2,500 years and was built to give thanks to Athena, the city's patron goddess, for the salvation of Athens and Greece in the Persian Wars. The building was officially called the Temple of Athena the Virgin.
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The Parthenon (/ˈpɑːrθəˌnɒn, -nən/; Ancient Greek: Παρθενών; Greek: Παρθενώνας, Parthenónas) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron. Construction began in 447 BC when the Athenian Empire was at the peak of its power. Wikipedia
a very rare visit. free nocturnal entrance to acropolis. because of august's bright fullmoon.
a feast. and a silent dialogue with the past.
The ABSOLUTE MONUMENT!!!!!!!!!
If you haven't been there, you can't imagine how it feels to just look at it.....
The Parthenon (Greek παρθενών "Virgin's Room") is the temple of the goddess Pallas Athena Parthenos on the Athenian Acropolis.
Der Parthenon (griechisch παρθενών „Jungfrauengemach“) ist der Tempel für die Stadtgöttin Pallas Athena Parthenos auf der Athener Akropolis.
Blue hour at the artificially lit Acropolis in Athens just before sunrise.
The scaffolding has been there for over 4 decades (since 1975), although it seems a little less intrusive these days, since the Eastern facade is finally free of scaffolding. It is estimated to take another 20 years for the restoration.
20/09/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
Six stately young women stand like sentinels on a marble parapet atop the Athenian Acropolis. They are gazing at the Parthenon, the great temple of Athena that, even in its present ruin, is one of the marvels of the world. Casual and relaxed, the women are balancing a heavy stone roof on their heads. It is a remarkable display of female power: voluptuous curves combined with massive, muscular strength.
Since the Roman era, columns shaped like women have been called caryatids. The word comes from the Spartan city of Caryae, where young women did a ring dance around an open-air statue of the goddess Artemis, locally identified with a walnut tree. Antiquity’s most famous caryatids were these six of the Acropolis.
By:Camille Paglia
Seen in Explore Jan 17, 2018
Taken with my Pentax Spotmatic I in 1971. I was in the US Air Force, and wss so fortunate to serve 21 months in Athens.
This is a scan of a slide, probably Agfachrome 25..... that film produced such bright and vivid colors, yet not glaringly so. Unfortunately, I subsequently stored my slide collection in the attic for several decades, and the temperature extremes deteriorated the quality. But, it has new life as a B&W.
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The columns on all Greek temples seem to slope in a bit, and it is not an illusion, if you follow a line from all of the columns they meet in the upper atmosphere almost exactly where the stratosphere begins.
The Parthenon is a former temple, on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.
The Parthenon in Nashville is the world’s only exact-size and detail replica of the original temple in Athens, Greece. A temporary plaster, wood and brick structure was erected as the centerpiece of the 100th anniversary celebration of Tennessee statehood at an exposition opening on May 1, 1897.
In 1915, the city moved toward making the Parthenon replica a permanent structure with the exterior opening in 1925 and the interior completed in 1931.
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