2018 Eastern Mediterranean Trip - Athens, The Agora

As I noted in my text post a couple of days ago, the Agora, the central meeting place of the city during the ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine times, was destroyed and rebuilt so many times, it is amazing anyone could make sense of it.

Are we prepared to descend into history?

Our Photographic Commander-in-Chief is

Detail from the Tower of Winds in the Roman Agora 

Used Church, only used on Sundays

How many ways can we look back at the Acropolis from the Agora?

A lot

The Temple of Hephaestus

(The best preserved Doric tenple in Greece. Dedicated to Hephaestus, god of the forge, the temple was one of the first of Pericles projects and was built in 449 by Iktinos, one of the architects of the Parthenon)

There is a single Byzantine Orthodox church dating from the 11th century in the Agora complex

And you know what that means

Orthodox Byzantine Art!

But we were not limited to that

There was a great Museum in a reconstructed building in the complex

There was some great, great pottery art work there

Unfortunately I was really flagging in my energies

I should have taken fifty pictures the detail and human form expression was so good

Um

Didn't really look at this until I was editing the pictures

Some sort of fertility symbolism?

Uncategorized stuff

A weary Wife Photographer Commander-in-Chief says it is time to quit

2018 Eastern Mediterranean Trip - Acropolis Photos

Let's get to the serious business of posting tons of pictures. These are from our Sunday visit to the Acropolis.

Photographic Commander-in-Chief Wife prepares to lead the assault on A-List site Acropolis

"Okay Major, Lieutenant, Sergeant, Private de-I

(I fill all roles below Photographic Commander-in-Chief)

Do we have a plant?"

"Ah, well done.

It is always important to have a way in and a way out."

"Now, prepare the shock troops to clear our way so all are pictures are clean shots."

"You're kidding me Major, Lieutenant, Sergeant, Private!

ANOTHER Theater?"

As the Acropolis is up on a hill it offers views of the city

The harbor near Pireaus

Down in the old part of the city

 

Our neighborhood is between that hill and the Acropolis

Views of places we were on our photo tour

The Olympic Stadium

The Temple of Zeus

And on to the Acropolis 

An overview

 

"Hello, I am your blogger de-Intimdator to show you around lots of old stuff"

Voila

Old stuff

Not old stuff

Old stuff again

Like geologically type old stuff

Back to just old stuff

Attempts to use photographic workshop teachings with old stuff

We leave the Acropolis just as the hordes of tourists come, just a so many waves of barbarian invaders assaulted Greece in the past