Athens is a huge city. There is a great deal of hustle and bustle here, but there are still places where you can get some quiet time to yourself. Athens has many gorgeous city parks that will give you the time you need. Athens is truly enchanting in the parks during the summer months. You [...]
If you like a quiet environment, you should go to Athens where there are many city parks and quiet places fit for you. Every season in Athens is enchanting. No matter you only pass by Athens when you went to an island in summer or you just consider Athens as a place of interest and [...]
Greece is a land of legends, and the people in many of the ancient city states told stories about great heroes in their past. Surprisingly, in view of its importance over many centuries, Athens could boast only one famous hero: Theseus.
Theseus was the son of King Aegeus of Athens and Aethra, daughter of the king [...]
Agora of Athens was very important in ancient Greece. It was a large open center where the citizens met, and assembled to listen to speeches, or for a wide variety of reasons. On some days it was used as a market, while on other it was used for a theatrical performance, or an election, a [...]
The Agora of Athens was the center of the ancient city: a large, open square where the citizens could assemble for a wide variety of purposes. On any given day the space might be used as a market, or for an election, a dramatic performance, a religious procession, military drill, or athletic competition.
Here administrative, political, [...]
It is the ancient Writings of Pausanias that truly describe the original beauty of the Acropolis! There is an area between the Parthenon and the Propylea where there were many monuments in ancient Greek times. These attracted the attention of the great explorer Pausanias who described them explicitly in his writings, especially those that were [...]
Everyone knows of the Acropolis, and knows that it is one of the most famous monuments of ancient times. In ancient Greek times the word actually meant “the highest point” in town. Ancient Greeks would build their towns on the flat land around a rocky hill this would allow them to better defend themselves during [...]
The space around the Parthenon was replete with sacred objects and votive offerings. In the area between the temple of Athena and the Erechtheion, Pausanias reported the small shrine of the seed-bearing Earth where there was a statue of this minor divinity appealing to Zeus for rain. In grid Attica, drought was always one of [...]
During 480 and 479 BC the Persians, under King Xerxes attempted the subjugation of Greece, and burned Athens before being forced to retreat. When the Athenians, who had been evacuated from the city, returned, they found that all the fine buildings on the Acropolis had been laid waste. At first they determined not to rebuild [...]