Greece, Part 1

ATHENS


The Acropolis


The front of the Acropolis, with the only point of entry


The back of the Acropolis


Turtle hanging out at the Acropolis


The Acropolis Amphitheater. Sorry dad, no Yanni sightings.


The Temple of Athena Nike. Completed in 420 B.C.


The back of the Temple of Athena Nike. I hate scaffolding.


The Parthenon. Completed in 432 B.C.


The back of the Parthenon


More goddamn scaffolding


The Erechtheion. Completed in 406 B.C.


The front of the Erechtheion


One more Erechtheion shot


The Caryatids


Walking to the Ancient Agora


The Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Agora


Looking all the way through


View of the entire Ancient Agora


The Stoa of Attalus II


Lord Voldemort?


Hadrian's Library


The Roman Agora


Walking up to the Theater of Dionysus


Theater of Dionysus. Used to be able to hold 17,000 people.


The Temple of Olympian Zeus, as seen from the Acropolis. Hadrian's Arch is towards the bottom.


Hadrian's Arch


The foundations were laid by Pisistratus in 515 B.C., but the temple wasn't actually completed until Emperor Hadrian's reign in 129 A.D.


The remaining columns. There used to be 104.


The fallen column, which was blown down during a wind storm in 1852


Oops


The Acropolis at night


Drinking games at the hostel. I'm looking really sunburned.