The National Archaeological Museum is all of Greece at once.
Crowded House.
The pervading scent was the dust on the stones.
Category: Theory
The aliens have landed!
I admit they do look a little bit like Thor from Star Gate.
They landed on an island in the Kyklades.
Lost your marbles?
Lord Elgin’s side of the story remains to be heard.
Acropolis Museum and New Acropolis Museum.
Big Zeus!
Big!
The temple of Zeus.
Row! Row! Row your trireme!
The new accommodates the past in Athens in many ways. Piraeus has several examples.
All I know about triremes comes from Wikipedia these days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trireme
It’s all Greek to me.
Plato’s Academy in the first hour.
My first goal in Athens was to find Plato’s Academy.
On the origins of the phrase “it’s all Greek to me,” see http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-gre1.htm
Cool Runnings
There are seven things to see at Marathon, but they are too far apart to do on foot.
The 42.19 kilometer Marathon
Bema there, done that!
I stood where Pericles stood.
The Pnyx had no tourists but us.
Bury my heart at … Kerameikos
We have been to Wounded Knee in Wyoming. I have a dream catcher to prove it.
The Cimetière du Père-Lachaise of Ancient Athens
Alexander the Great was here!
That lion is big.
Next stop Chaeronea