Linear B Tablets
Heraklion Museum- Knossos These are Linear B tablets. Linear B is the language that emerged in Greece coming out of its Dark Ages. Unlike...
Heraklion Museum- Knossos These are Linear B tablets. Linear B is the language that emerged in Greece coming out of its Dark Ages. Unlike...
Herakloin Museum- Knossos This is known as the Phaistos Disk. It is a clay disk that was stamped with hieroglyphics and then burned to...
Agora Museum- Athens These pots were used for voting during a government event called an ostracism. An ostracism was the process by which...
Agora Museum- Athens This is what remains of the terracotta mold of a bronze statue of Apollo. The mold was used in a the bronze cast...
Museum of Delphi- Delphi This early classical statue scaled the Delphi charioteer. This statue was originally connected to a chariot with...
Museum of Delphi- Delphi This is called the navel stone of Delphi or the "Omphalos" in Greek. According to myth, it is said that the...
Museum of Delphi- Delphi This is called the Naplion Sphinx. It depicts a sphinx perched on an ionic order column. It bares a striking...
Sparta Museum- Sparta This stump is the base of statue that is no longer attached, but would have commemorated someone who died at the...
This is a fresco of an Athenian named Alcibiades. Why is his fresco in Sparta if he is Athenian? Like I said before the Spartans didn't...
Spartan Museum- Sparta This is a Spartan bust that was made in the Archaic period. Notice the Archaic smile which is typical of statues...
Nafplio This is a picture of me and two friends after climbing 999 steps to get to a medieval fortress on a hill. At first I was...
Sparta This is a monument dedicated to Leonidas and the 300 Spartans that dies at Thermopylae. Their actions and bravery are still...
Island of Patmos This is a picture of me at the Monastery of St. John. When you enter it, you are allowed to walk in some of the rooms...
Athens This is the Philopappos monument that is located at the top of the Hill of Muses in Athens. Philopappos, who the monument was...
Cape Sounion This is theTemple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion. Although Athena is the patron god of Athens, Poseidon is a close second for...
Mycenae This is photo of grave circle A located in the Mycenaean palace. This grave circle was excavated by Heinrich Schliemann. This is...
National Archeological Museum- Athens This is the Mask of Agamemnon. It was discovered in Grave Circle A in the Mycenaean Fortress by...
National Archeological Museum- Athens This statue is called the Anavyssos Kouros which means young man from Anavyssos. It was created...
National Archeological Museum- Athens This is a statue of the god Zeus from the Classical Era of Greek art. Standing 6 ft 8 in, this...