Italy Greece 2017

Part 5

The Parthenon.

The restoration continues but will not go all the way.

The new pieces are made obvious on purpose.

The Erechtheum built between 421 and 406 BCE.

There were a lot of people there. It was also very hot.

Close look at the statues on the Porch of the Maidens.

Athens is large. The city has a population of 664,000 but the metro area has 4.1M people.

The population of Greece is about 11M.

The Temple of the Olympian Zeus.

We wait to see what is next after a visit to a souvenir shop.

The Acropolis from the roof of a nearby café where we had lunch.

To the Plaka for coffee and baklava which I ate at every opportunity.

Some of the group headed off an optional trip with dinner and a few of us took

the subway and then walked to the Archeological Museum.

A very small item. I like silver.

But I like gold better.

A death mask?

Horse with jockey found at a shipwreck off Cape Artemision.

Created about 140 BCE, reassembled in 1971.

A statue of Aphrodite. Amazing this survived and need only a bit of restoration.

From the 4^th C. BCE.

A funerary lebes-kalpe.

About 350 BCE.

This funerary lekythos depicts a young woman dying in child birth.

Her name was Theophante. About 340 BCE.

From the Antikythera shipwreck. The statue may show Perseu with the head of Medusa missing.

Or it may be Paris with the Apple of Strife missing. Perhaps Eve took it.

A boxer, probably Satyros of Elis.

Called a clay “frying-pan” vessel. From 2800-2300 BCE.

Rolling waves with a fish.

Head of Athena.

Statue of the kore Phrasikleia. 550-540 BCE.

Holding either a lotus flower or possibly night light bulb.

Aphrodite, Pan and Eros. She is going to hit him with her sandal.

A Siren who lured mariners to their death with their enchanting song.

Pretty pretty.

Then a short walk to the hotel, dinner, one last class of wine and then to bed.

Up at 5:30 to head to the airport for the nearly 11-hour flight home.