"Now, since it is thought that he proceeded thus against the Samians to gratify Aspasia, this may be a fitting place to raise the query what great art or power this woman had, that she managed as she pleased the foremost men of the state, and afforded the philosophers occasion to discuss her in exalted terms and at great length."
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Yang Yongliang, Greece 1, c. 2012 (via polychroniadis)
Labtop, Museum of Underwater Antiquities, Piraeus, Greece, 2013
Reblogged from allthingseurope
Thanassis Fournarakos, View of Meteora, Thessaly, Greece, c. 2012 (via allthingseurope)
"At one important point in its history, Athens literally became a fleet of ships."
— Indra Kagis McEwen, Socrates’ Ancestor, 1993
Aristide Antonas, Hymettus Vertical Mobile Village, Athens, Greece, c. 2012 (via domus)
Philipp von Foltz, Pericles’ Funeral Oration, c. 1870
Read the Oration here.
"For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart."
— Thucydides, “Pericles’ Funeral Oration” from the History of the Peloponnesian War (2.43), c. 411 BCE
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Phryne Revealed Before the Areopagus, 1861
Iktinos + Philon, Plan of the Telesterion of Demeter, Eleusis, Greece, c. 430-310 BCE (via archiveofaffinities)
Site Plan of the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, Greece, c. 400 BC (via archiveofaffinities)
Map of the Cleomenean War, 229-2 BCE
Pythion or Sanctuary of the Bulls / Exhibition Hall for a War Gallery, Delos, Greece, 306-1 BCE (via archiveofaffinities)
