Showing posts with label Peloponnese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peloponnese. Show all posts

Sunday, January 6, 2019

Zeus

Statue of Zeus,from a shipwreck at Cape Artemision,North Euboea island,Greece.Bronze,460-450 BC.NAMA Athens
Bronze statuette of Zeus.From the sanctuary of Dodoni,Epirus,Greece.470-460 BC.Arch.Museum of Ioannina.
Doric temple of Zeus,Nemea,Peloponnese,Greece.
Europa and Zeus transformed into a bull.Terracotta figurine from Boeotia,Greece.470-450 BC.
Head of Zeus.Sardonyx,Alexandria,3rd c.BC.Hellenistic.
Bronze head of Zeus.Archaic period.Ancient Olympia,Peloponnese,Greece.
Temple of Zeus.Ancient Hellenic city of Cyrene,North Africa.
Bust of Zeus.Marble copy of a Greek original.2nd c.CE.
Bust of Zeus bearing an oak wreath and a winged thunderbolt.Bronze copy of Greek original,1st century
The ancient temple of Zeus after rain.Athens 1930
Votive relief from the Sanctuary dedicated to Artemis at Brauron(eastern Attica).420BC.Zeus,Leto,Apollo and Artemis
Temple of Olympian Zeus,Athens.Corinthian order (detail).
Attic black-figure tripod,570-560 BC.Found in Thebes.Zeus giving birth to Athena from his head.Birth Athena Painter
King of Epirus,Pyrrhos.297-272 BC.Tetradrachm.Lokroi Epizephyrioi.Head of Zeus left.
Silver statuette of Zeus,1st century,J.P.Getty Museum
Zeus or Poseidon ? Bronze statue of Artemision,North Euboea,Greece.460 BC
Αncient temple of Zeus.Nemea,Peloponnese,Greece
Silver tetradrachm with seated Zeus holding an eagle,a lion’s head and the inscription ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ.Babylon,325-323 BC.
Corinthian helmet with the fragmentary inscription Athenians.Dedicated to Olympian Zeus,500 BC.
Marble relief depicting Kairos the youngest child of Zeus.Represented opportunity,as well as good timing and season
Bronze statue of Zeus holding the (missing) thunderbolt,530 BC.From Taras,Magna Grecia
Nemea,the temple of Zeus
Bronze snake with votive inscription to Zeus Meilichios.Peloponnese,around 550 BC.Altes Museum,Berlin
West pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia,Peloponnese,Greece
East side of the Zeus temple in Olympia,with excavation crew.In front of the building there are statue bases.1875


Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great with Lion head,4th-3rd c.BC.MET Museum. 

Monument of the meeting between the philosopher Diogenes and Alexander the Great. Corinth,Peloponnese,Greece

Hellenistic gold ring with Onyx intaglio,100 BC.Head of deified Alexander the Great wearing horn of Ammon

Ηellenistic bronze protome of Alexander the Great.MET Museum

Hellenistic sculpture possibly depicting a wary Alexander the Great.Hermitage Museum. 

Detail from the battle of Issus.Alexander the Great.Mosaic,1st c.AC .

Bronze figure of Alexander the Great,Hellenistic period,3rd-2nd c.BC. 

Friday, November 30, 2018

Hagia Sophia, Monemvasia

Hagia Sophia, Monemvasia

Monemvasia (Greek: Μονεμβασία) is a town and a municipality in Laconia, Greece. The town is located on a small island off the east coast of the Peloponnese. The island is linked to the mainland by a short causeway 200m in length. Its area consists mostly of a large plateau some 100 metres above sea level, up to 300 m wide and 1 km long, the site of a powerful medieval fortress. The town walls and many Byzantine churches remain from the medieval period. The seat of the municipality is the town Molaoi.

The Church of Agia Sofia in Monemvasia, Peloponnese: The Church of Agia Sofia is among the oldest and most important Byzantine churches in Greece. It stands on the highest point of Monemvasia and gives great view to the Aegean Sea. This church was originally established in the 12th century by the Byzantine emperor Andronicus II and it was dedicated to Panagia Hodegetria, which means the Virgin who leads the way. In the Venetian times, it was converted into a Catholic Convent. After the Greek Independence, it was dedicated to the Wisdom of God and was named Agia Sofia. Time and wars caused serious damage to the church and it was restored in the middle 20th century by Eustathios Stikas Source: www.greeka.com