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Preface The visitor who arrives at Eleusis, either passing through or for remaining a few hours, is amazed and has a strange look when facing the remaining ruins of the ancient religious glory of Eleusis and is, so to speak, unable to conceive the ancient splendour by relying on the present day ruins lying before him. [...]

The first Museum of the Acropolis was established in a cavity of the hill opposite the Parthenon in 1865. This museum never accommodated the antiquities of the Acropolis in a satisfactory manner, despite successive additions built on to it. Today, the new Museum, ten times larger in size than the original, provides a safe heaven for the masterpieces of the Acropolis and ensures that they are given the prominence they deserve. This is achieved with ideal interior atmospheric conditions, natural lighting, as well as easy visitor access, panoramic views and superior layout of...

Brief archaeological guidebook to Greece. 205 colour photographs. History, myth, archaeological sites. The picture of the most important monuments in antiquity and today.

The book "Ancient Greece: Temples and Sanctuaries" provides a synoptic but complete analysis and description of the most important Greek archaeological sites. The architecture of the archaic and classical periods are here presented in the most direct possible way: historical details, rich photographic material, analytical plans of the monuments, drawings of reconstructions and their juxtaposition with today's appearance and frequent references to mythological sources and ancient Greek ritual practices. There is also information on the museums that accompany the archaeologic...

The present edition offers a concise presentation of the archaeological site of Messene by its excavator and head of the restoration program, incorporating the latest results of archaeological research. Guided by informative texts, pictures and drawings, the visitor to the site can take in the history of the city, walk around its monumental fortifications and explore the Theatre, the Agora and its sanctuaries, the impressive Stadium with its Palaestra, as well as investigate the area of the funerary monuments. Through the history of the research in the ancient town and the...

Athen, Sounion, Egina, Korinth, Epidauros, Mykene, Tiryns, Olympia, Delfi, Dodona, Dion, Vergina, Pella, Thessaloniki, Delos, Kreta, Rhodos Guidebok med 26 utforliga Rekonstruktioner