The Parthenon veiled in orange by African dust | Photo by Giorgos Kontarinis, Eurokinissi | Athens 23rd April 2024

The Roman Agora, Athens | Photo 1880.

Children before the Temple of Theseus with the Acropolis in the background | Photo 1901 - Mary Evans Picture Library

The Prison of Socrates, Athens, Greece | Photo early 1900s: The Keasbury-Gordon Photograph Archive / Mary Evans

Σὲ γνωρίζω ἀπὸ τὴν κόψι
τοῦ σπαθιοῦ τὴν τρομερή,
σὲ γνωρίζω ἀπὸ τὴν ὄψι,
ποὺ μὲ βία μετράει τὴν γῆ.

Ἀπ’ τὰ κόκκαλα βγαλμένη
τῶν Ἑλλήνων τὰ ἱερά,
καὶ σὰν πρῶτα ἀνδρειωμένη,
χαῖρε, ὢ χαῖρε, Ἐλευθεριά!
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Πάντα Ελεύθεροι και Μονιασμένοι!

The Lion Gate - Mycenae, Greece | Photo by Nikolaos Stournaras (1918-1993)

«Το Τραπέζι της Καθαρής Δευτέρας» Σπύρος Βασιλείου, 1950

Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd at the Acropolis - 'Boy on a Dolphin | Photo 1957

Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd at the Acropolis - 'Boy on a Dolphin | Photo 1957

A Family at Mycenae | Photo by Hugues Krafft (1853-1935)

The Acropolis, Athens. Photo by Hugues Krafft (1853-1935).

Hadrian's Gate and the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens | Photo by Henri Beck, 1868

Dimis Kritsas and models posing at the Poseidon Temple, Sounion 1961. Photo by Slim Aarons

The Dancers of Delphi, also known as the Acanthus Column, were found near the sanctuary of Pythian Apollo at Delphi | dated to c. 330 BC | Lucien Magne, 1894-95.

Isadora Duncan at the Acropolis, 1921 | Photo Edward Steichen

Idyllic landscape around Theseion below the Acropolis | Photo by Pascal Sebah, 1870

The Dafne Ewer. Free-blown glass, cold painted and gilded. Opaque white, red, grey, gold. H. 22.2 cm. Shoulder diam 9.5 cm. From a tomb at Kerch (ancient Panticapaeum). Probably made in Antioch, Syria. Roman. Middle Imperial. ca. 175-225 AD. The Corning Museum Of Glass. New York.

Omnia vincit amor!

Winged Eros has just stolen Herakles' weapons. How powerful a child!

Glass cameo. Length: 2.1 cm. Roman, Early Imperial. 1st century BC-1st century AD. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Lion Gate of Mycenae - Photo 1897 by Underwood & Underwood - Benaki Museum Photographic Archives

The mountains look on Marathon
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free
- Lord Byron, Don Juan (1819–24) canto 3, st. 86 (3)
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'View of Marathon' by Andrew MacCallum, 1874. Benaki Museum