Gallery of Ancient Athens

Following the familiar adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" I'm including more views from my visit to the Acropolis in Athens, and one shot inside the National Archaeological Museum before I got yelled at by the guards ("no flash! no flash!"), and my picture of Constantine Paleologus.

The Propylaia, built c. 437 BC, the dramatic entrance to the Acropolis

Off in the distance, the Erechtheion, with the famous Porch of the Caryatids

The Parthenon, east side

With the right angle, you can almost see how the platform curves

 The Ionic columns of the Erechtheion



 Gold funerary masks found during the excavations at Mycenae 

 



Memorial statue of Constantine Paleologus, the last Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, who at the Siege of Constantinople in 1453 was last seen on the walls fighting the Ottoman Turks.