These pictures are from Kuvvaci who asked me to post them in our forum. They are great pics that give an image of what Athens may have looked like.


Thank you Kuvvaci!

Athens

http://www.wga.hu/art/k/klenze/acropoli.jpg


The Harbor

http://cgfa.sunsite.dk//c/cole2.jpg


Athens at it's peak(?)

http://dellelce.com/desktop/images/desktop_l_athens_hadrian.jpg


During the 1800's

http://www.brynmawr.edu/Admins/DMVRC/lanterns/lrgimage/greece/athens/acropolis/LX000012.jpg

beautiful :eek:

Thanks Kuvvaci and Christos7!!! It is hard for me to picture how Athens looked thousands, or even hundreds of years ago. I am grateful for the creativity of those people who take whatever facts are known and create masterpieces that take us back in time. Sometimes, the picture looks too perfect to be believable (e.g. the harbor image), but nevertheless, this is a relaxing journey back in time. Many thanks for sharing these images :okay:

really great pics
thanks to both of you for posting it
when I have some time I will scan view of the Pictures from Athens during the Neoclassic Period
again thanks guys

that bridge in the 3 pic exists today? is old like the athor Hellenic monuments (Acropole for exemple)?

Wow!!Great thread!!Really impressive the old Athens,it reminds me a bit ancient Rome!!

wow, glory that was greece. amazing

wow, glory that was greece. amazing
indeed. Also stay tunned cos more pics of ancient Athens are coming :okay:

Wow!!Great thread!!Really impressive the old Athens,it reminds me a bit ancient Rome!!

Well dont forget sts the romans learnt from the best ;)

Btw, the athens at its peak was most probarbly not athens at its peak but when athens came under the control of the romans

Nice pics of ancient Athens.

I don't get why some feel the need to bring nationalistic/ethnic issues into the thread or why people respond to that with more off topic banther that doesn't belong here.
Both are equally unacceptable and therefore those posts are deleted.

Thank you shiro

Cristos7 and Kuvvaci! thank u guys very much for this thread! im a big fan of ancient Greece architecture(and Roman).. i've been searchin for pics like those for long time but no result and now... :eek: hope 2 see more! those pics are fantastic!

indeed. Also stay tunned cos more pics of ancient Athens are coming :okay:

wow glory that was greece !!!

The Propylea was never finished, so for a start, the entrance to the sacred rock would look more like it is today, but cleaner and not damaged. Also all the figures and marble freezes on every temple were painted bright colors. Athens was a city of pagan colors, not bleached pure white how the English and Germans taught everyone it was. It was full of traders, very dirty, but with many big temples, trading squares.

I dont think that the 2nd picture that shows the ancient Pireas port is very realistic. It looks more like a imaginary classical-romantic painting of the 18th century. It is very nice though, and especially the other 3 pictures are great :) Waiting for more :)

Interesting and very nice those photos are indeed; thanks a lot, Kuvvaci :)