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  • Ancient site of Olympia. Ruins of the "treasures" buildings offered to Oluympia, on the right and pillars of the temple of Hera on the left.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1227.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Marble grave stone. Depiction of an athlete scraping himself clean. 330-320 BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1856.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Clay pots depicting athletes of discus-throwing and javelin. 4th-5th c. BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1906.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Zeus bronze statue and Zeus on a clay pot.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1842.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Perhaps the most famous of all the statues in the Olympia Museum is The Hermes of Praxiteles. Circa 340 BCE<br />
<br />
Hermes is holding the infant Dionysus in his left arm, while he dangles a bunch of grapes in his right (missing) one. It is a typical pose that was reproduced almost identically in many ancient statues, but the original one was attributed to Praxiteles.<br />
<br />
The marble is beautifully carved to describe the anatomy of the body in accurate forms, while the treatment of the surface juxtaposing sheen and texture reveal the different roles of the stone: skin, cloth, tree, and hair.<br />
<br />
Hermes has assumed the contrapposto pose, typical of Classical standing figures, in an effortless and natural way--his hip pushed upward on the right side to support the entire weight of his body.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1799.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. The Nike of Paionios of Mende in Chalkidiki, Macedonia (his name is carved on the base of the statue). Circa 420 BCE.<br />
<br />
The statue, even in its ruinous state reveals a strong sense of movement emphasized by the strong diagonal pose (side view), the hovering feet, and the lines of the himation that push against her body as if forced by the wind. Her spread wings and the face have not survived.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1793.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Large bronze lion head. 8 c. BC
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1764.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. Ruins of the doric temple of Zeus that was the largest one in the Peloponnese, measuring 27.68 m x 64.12 m. It was buid from 470 till 456 BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1539.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Palaistra (3rd century BC) was the training ground for athletes who competed in the wrestling and jumping events. It also served as the athletes' living quarters during training.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1422.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Iron wheel, bronze statues and clay pots related to the Chariot Races, 8th-5th c. BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1892.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Fragment of mosaic floor. Depiction of Nike crowning Eros-Agon (Eros -Contest). Late Roman period, 5c. AD.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1870.jpg
  • Achaeological museum of Olympia
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1817.jpg
  • Achaeology museum of Olympia. The Temple of Zeus' West pediment.<br />
<br />
This arrangement of sculptures contrasts the serenity of the East pediment with a much more dynamic composition that illustrates the fight between Centaurs and Lapiths who are engaged in a battle over the abduction of the Lapith women. Apollo presides over all in the center flanked by the heroes Theseus and Peirithoos. The figures a the ends were destroyed in 460 BCE and they were replaced at a later date with the ones found in excavations.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1826.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Perhaps the most famous of all the statues in the Olympia Museum is The Hermes of Praxiteles. Circa 340 BCE<br />
<br />
Hermes is holding the infant Dionysus in his left arm, while he dangles a bunch of grapes in his right (missing) one. It is a typical pose that was reproduced almost identically in many ancient statues, but the original one was attributed to Praxiteles.<br />
<br />
The marble is beautifully carved to describe the anatomy of the body in accurate forms, while the treatment of the surface juxtaposing sheen and texture reveal the different roles of the stone: skin, cloth, tree, and hair.<br />
<br />
Hermes has assumed the contrapposto pose, typical of Classical standing figures, in an effortless and natural way--his hip pushed upward on the right side to support the entire weight of his body.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1811.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Perhaps the most famous of all the statues in the Olympia Museum is The Hermes of Praxiteles. Circa 340 BCE<br />
<br />
Hermes is holding the infant Dionysus in his left arm, while he dangles a bunch of grapes in his right (missing) one. It is a typical pose that was reproduced almost identically in many ancient statues, but the original one was attributed to Praxiteles.<br />
<br />
The marble is beautifully carved to describe the anatomy of the body in accurate forms, while the treatment of the surface juxtaposing sheen and texture reveal the different roles of the stone: skin, cloth, tree, and hair.<br />
<br />
Hermes has assumed the contrapposto pose, typical of Classical standing figures, in an effortless and natural way--his hip pushed upward on the right side to support the entire weight of his body.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1804.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Defencive and Offencive war equipment.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1783.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. Ruins of the doric temple of Zeus that was the largest one in the Peloponnese, measuring 27.68 m x 64.12 m. It was buid from 470 till 456 BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1527.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. Inscription about an athlet and probably a base for a statue.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1524.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The ruins of the Leonidaion.<br />
It was a large guest house for visiting officials, and it was the donation of a wealthy Naxian, Leonidas in the 4th c. BCE. In the roman times a pool was build in the inner yard. It is said that Leonidaion was the first hotel in the world.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1377.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Palaistra (3rd century BC) was the training ground for athletes who competed in the wrestling and jumping events. It also served as the athletes' living quarters during training.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1084.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Iron strigil and two aryballos pots from 4th and 5th c. BC. <br />
The strigil is a tool for the cleansing of the body by scraping off dirt, perspiration, and oil that was applied before bathing in Ancient Greek and Roman cultures. The strigil was primarily of use to men, specifically male athletes.<br />
An aryballos (Greek: ἀρύβαλλος; plural aryballoi) was a small spherical or globular flask with a narrow neck used in Ancient Greece.[1][2] It was used to contain perfume or oil, and is often depicted in vase paintings being used by athletes during bathing. In these depictions, the vessel is at times attached by a strap to the athlete's wrist, or hung by a strap from a peg on the wall.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1930.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Clay pots from around 5th c. BC
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1890.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Bronze discus, 6th-5th c. BC (left). Stone halter (jumping-weight), 5 c. BC (right).
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1861.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Inscription on Bronze with a list of athletes. !st c. BC - 4 c. AD
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1845.jpg
  • Achaeology museum of Olympia. The Temple of Zeus' East pediment.<br />
<br />
It depicts the chariot race between Oinomaos and Pelops. They appear in the moments before the race, in a calm and ordered composition. In the center of the group, Zeus is the ultimate observer is flanked by the two heroes and their wives. Next to them are their horses and chariots (now lost) and several auxiliary figures. The reclining figures at the two ends of the pediment represent the two rivers of Olympia, Alpheios and Kladeos.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1832.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Clay warrior.<br />
Early 5th c. BCE
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1795.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. The Nike of Paionios of Mende in Chalkidiki, Macedonia (his name is carved on the base of the statue). Circa 420 BCE.<br />
<br />
The statue, even in its ruinous state reveals a strong sense of movement emphasized by the strong diagonal pose (side view), the hovering feet, and the lines of the himation that push against her body as if forced by the wind. Her spread wings and the face have not survived.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1794.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. The Nike of Paionios of Mende in Chalkidiki, Macedonia (his name is carved on the base of the statue). Circa 420 BCE.<br />
<br />
The statue, even in its ruinous state reveals a strong sense of movement emphasized by the strong diagonal pose (side view), the hovering feet, and the lines of the himation that push against her body as if forced by the wind. Her spread wings and the face have not survived.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1791.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. The Nike of Paionios of Mende in Chalkidiki, Macedonia (his name is carved on the base of the statue). Circa 420 BCE.<br />
<br />
The statue, even in its ruinous state reveals a strong sense of movement emphasized by the strong diagonal pose (side view), the hovering feet, and the lines of the himation that push against her body as if forced by the wind. Her spread wings and the face have not survived.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1790.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Bronze Corinthian helmets 8th-6th c. BC
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1780.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Bronze female winged figure <br />
It could have been a divine of demonic being, Artemis, Nike or a Sphinx. 590-580 BC
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1759.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. The altar of Zeus<br />
The great altar of Zeus, no trace of which survives today, is believed to have stood in the space between the Heraion and the Pelopion. <br />
According to the traveller Pausanias (V.13.8-10) the altar was circular or elliptical. It consisted of the “prothysis” (a base with a circumference of some 37 m), and the altar proper, which had been formed on top of the “prothysis” by the ashes of the sacrificed animals. The height of the altar, which was conical in shape, is calculated to have been about 7 m. <br />
On the fourth day of the Olympic Games the great sacrifice of a hundred oxen was performed, the hecatomb, in which the thighs of the animals were burnt on top of the altar. <br />
In the thick layer of ash from the altar, which was over a large radius around it, probably in late Geometric times, the excavators brought to light a huge quantity of clay and bronze figurines of the Geometric period, the votive offerings of the faithful.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1757.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The very ancient Doric temple of Hera (Heraion) is located at the foot of the Kronios hill, in the holiest spot of the Altis. Late 7th c. BCE. The altar of Hera is at teh front and it is the location where the lighting of the Olympic flame ceremony happens in the contemporay Olympics.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1698.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The very ancient Doric temple of Hera (Heraion) is located at the foot of the Kronios hill, in the holiest spot of the Altis. Late 7th c. BCE. The altar of Hera is at teh front and it is the location where the lighting of the Olympic flame ceremony happens in the contemporay Olympics.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1656.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The location where it is said that the  altar of Zeus used to be. Regular sacrifices where performed there.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1628.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Philippeion.<br />
338 BCE . A building build by Macedonian king Phillipos and his son Alexander. It was an offering to god Zeus to comemorate the victorious military  battle of Heronia.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1611.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The ruins of the Leonidaion.<br />
It was a large guest house for visiting officials, and it was the donation of a wealthy Naxian, Leonidas in the 4th c. BCE. In the roman times a pool was build in the inner yard. It is said that Leonidaion was the first hotel in the world.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1558.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. Ruins of the doric temple of Zeus that was the largest one in the Peloponnese, measuring 27.68 m x 64.12 m. It was buid from 470 till 456 BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1535.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Krypte, was the official entrance to the stadion. It was used by both the judges and the athletes. The arched passageway was built in the Hellenistic era 83rd cent. BC), and Pausanias called it the "secret entrance".
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1508.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Palaistra (3rd century BC) was the training ground for athletes who competed in the wrestling and jumping events. It also served as the athletes' living quarters during training.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1449.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Palaistra (3rd century BC) was the training ground for athletes who competed in the wrestling and jumping events. It also served as the athletes' living quarters during training.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1432.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. Ruins of the doric temple of Zeus that was the largest one in the Peloponnese, measuring 27.68 m x 64.12 m. It was buid from 470 till 456 BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1329.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. Ruins of the doric temple of Zeus that was the largest one in the Peloponnese, measuring 27.68 m x 64.12 m. It was buid from 470 till 456 BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1272.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The location where the olympic flame is passed by a priestess to the torch relay's firsr runner during the contemporay Olympics.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1193.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Stadion (or stadium) of Olympia.<br />
As it was customary in early Greek stadiums, the spectators sat on the slopes and the only stone seats were for the judges (hellanodikai).<br />
<br />
The stadium's course is about 200 yards long, which is equivalent to 600 Olympic feet (Andronicos, 41), or 191.78 meters long (Mee & Spawforth, 291). The capacity of the stadium is estimated at 40,000 spectators.<br />
<br />
The present restoration emulates a 4th c. BCE version with later additions, which was built on an earlier, smaller stadium.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1181.jpg
  • Olympia train station
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1148.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Stadion (or stadium) of Olympia.<br />
As it was customary in early Greek stadiums, the spectators sat on the slopes and the only stone seats were for the judges (hellanodikai).<br />
<br />
The stadium's course is about 200 yards long, which is equivalent to 600 Olympic feet (Andronicos, 41), or 191.78 meters long (Mee & Spawforth, 291). The capacity of the stadium is estimated at 40,000 spectators.<br />
<br />
The present restoration emulates a 4th c. BCE version with later additions, which was built on an earlier, smaller stadium.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1138.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Philippeion.<br />
338 BCE . A building build by Macedonian king Phillipos and his son Alexander. It was an offering to god Zeus to comemorate the victorious military  battle of Heronia.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1060.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Palaistra (3rd century BC) was the training ground for athletes who competed in the wrestling and jumping events. It also served as the athletes' living quarters during training.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1068.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Inscription on bronze with regulations for athletes and judges. Last quarter of the 6th c. BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1848.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Perhaps the most famous of all the statues in the Olympia Museum is The Hermes of Praxiteles. Circa 340 BCE<br />
<br />
Hermes is holding the infant Dionysus in his left arm, while he dangles a bunch of grapes in his right (missing) one. It is a typical pose that was reproduced almost identically in many ancient statues, but the original one was attributed to Praxiteles.<br />
<br />
The marble is beautifully carved to describe the anatomy of the body in accurate forms, while the treatment of the surface juxtaposing sheen and texture reveal the different roles of the stone: skin, cloth, tree, and hair.<br />
<br />
Hermes has assumed the contrapposto pose, typical of Classical standing figures, in an effortless and natural way--his hip pushed upward on the right side to support the entire weight of his body.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1809.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. Ruins of the doric temple of Zeus that was the largest one in the Peloponnese, measuring 27.68 m x 64.12 m. It was buid from 470 till 456 BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1534.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. Ruins of the doric temple of Zeus that was the largest one in the Peloponnese, measuring 27.68 m x 64.12 m. It was buid from 470 till 456 BC.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1273.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Philippeion.<br />
338 BCE . A building build by Macedonian king Phillipos and his son Alexander. It was an offering to god Zeus to comemorate the victorious military  battle of Heronia.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1103.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Stadion (or stadium) of Olympia.<br />
As it was customary in early Greek stadiums, the spectators sat on the slopes and the only stone seats were for the judges (hellanodikai).<br />
<br />
The stadium's course is about 200 yards long, which is equivalent to 600 Olympic feet (Andronicos, 41), or 191.78 meters long (Mee & Spawforth, 291). The capacity of the stadium is estimated at 40,000 spectators.<br />
<br />
The present restoration emulates a 4th c. BCE version with later additions, which was built on an earlier, smaller stadium.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1137.jpg
  • Ancient site of Olympia. The Palaistra (3rd century BC) was the training ground for athletes who competed in the wrestling and jumping events. It also served as the athletes' living quarters during training.
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1078.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Clay pots and stone halter (jumping-weight) from 4th to 5th c. BC, related to Jump Contest
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1908.jpg
  • Olympic Games museum of Olympia. Marble statue of Zeus, 2nd c. AD (copy of an original by Myron)
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1885.jpg
  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. Grypas head. 2nd half of 2nd c. BC
    ANCIENT_OLYMPIA-GREECE-1766.jpg
  • Afghan man outside the temporaty structure that serves as his home at the camp, by some ancient Greek looking pillars.<br />
Moria refugee camp is a bit further out of Mytilene city and it is divided in two sections. The inner part is well organised with buildings and police guarding it, and the outer part where mainly Afghan refugees live in tents and is purely guarded with chaotic situations, mainly during food distribution, frequently occur.
    052-LESVOS-MORIA-7134.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Money that Chinese pilgrims left at a temple at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2436a.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  View from the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2386a.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Pilgrims climbing the many stept to the top of the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2342a.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  View from the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2386.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Chinese man walking down steps at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2480.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Money that Chinese pilgrims left at a temple at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2436.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Taoist monk at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2377.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Taoist monk at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2372.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Taoist monk in one of the temples of the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2512.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Chinese pilgrims praying at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2403.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Rooftops at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2496.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Fortunetelling by a Taoist monk at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2518.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Chinese man resting while enjoying the view at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2456.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Chinese pilgrims touching the poles of a temple for good luck at the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2432.jpg
  • Asia, China, Hubei province.  Pilgrims climbing the many stept to the top of the Golden Palace on the Heavenly Pillar Peak of Wudang moutain (Wudang-san), a World Heritage mountain with many Taoist monasteries.
    WUDANGSAN_2342.jpg
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