Greece Collection (page 3)

Zeus Meilichios depicted as a snake and a family of supplica
Relief with Zeus Meilichios depicted as a snake. On the left, a family of supplicants. Dedicated by Aristomene. Found in Pangrati (Athens) and dated between 350-300 BC

Art Greek. Hellenistic. The Statue of Lacoon (Laacoonte). 2
Art Greek. Hellenistic. Statue of Lacoon and his sons (Antiphates and Thymbraeus). The sculpture is attributed by three sculptors from the island of Rhodes. Agesander, Athenedores and Polydorus

Prince Philip of Greece & Milford Havens at Maidenhead
Celebrities at the Maidenhead Fishery Club in 1931. From left, the Marchioness of Milford Haven, formerly Countess Nada Torby, daughter of Grand Duke Michael of Russia, her daughter

GREECE. Daphni. Dapni Monastery. Christ Pantocrator inside the dome (early Comnenian period, ca. 1100). Byzantine art. Mosaic

Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885-1969), Princess Andrew of Greece from 1903, pictured in a sumptous evening gown and cloak

German gliders in Battle of Crete by G. H. Davis
Landing air troops: German gliders of the Battle of Crete during the Second World War. By the use of gliders, parachutes and mass-produced aeroplanes for crash landings

Princess Andrew of Greece and daughters
Princess Andrew of Greece (1885-1969), formerly Princess Alice of Battenberg, pictured with her four eldest children. From left, Princess Margarita (1905-1981), later Princess of Hohenlohe-Langeburg

Greek Statue of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros
Greek Marble Statue of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros - circa 100BC, found at Delos Date: circa 100BC

Hotel Cecil at Kifissia, Athens Suburb, Greece Date: circa 1920s

First Balkan War (1912 - 1913) - Hand-to-hand combat
Hand-to-hand combat during the First Balkan War as Greek troops overun a Turkish gun battery. The war lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece)

Greece Salonika
The harbour of Salonika, seen from the sea

Three men in traditional Greek Costume - Athens, Greece. Date: circa 1910s

Byzantine icon. Crucifixion. 9th-13th century. Byzantine Mus
Byzantine art. Eastern Roman Empire. Icon. Crucifixion. 9th-13th century. Byzantine Museum. Athens. Greece. Date: 20070529

Greece. Athens. Parthenon. Head of horse from the chariot of the moon-goddes Selene. East pediment. 5th C. BC. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Three Goddesses. Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite. East Pediment
Three Goddesses. Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite. From the East Pediment of the Parthenon, Athens. High Classical Greek. 438-432 BC. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747). Corfu. Gree
Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747). Marshal defender of the city of Corfu of the Turkish invasion of 1716. Marble statue. Corfu. Ionian Islands. Greece

Man with a glass. (2800-2300B. C. ). Cycladic Art. Ancient per
Cycladic Art. Ancient period II. Greece. Man with a glass. Canonical style. Belongs to the Syros phase (2800-2300 b.C.). Museum of Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art. Athens. Greece

Prince Philip & Prince Michael of Romania riding
Prince Philip of Greece & Denmark, later Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II (born 1921), seen as a young boy (far right), riding a pony on the beach, accompanied by his eldest sister

Turkish Barber at Thessaloniki, Greece. Date: circa 1907

Thessaloniki, Greece - Turkish Coffee Shop Waiter. Date: circa 1910s

PRAXITELES (flourished 370, -330 BC). Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus. ca. 330 BC. Hermes carrying the child Dionysus to the nymphs who were charged with his rearing. Classical Greek art

Tatler front cover of Duchess of Kent in her wedding gown
H.R.H The Duchess of Kent, formerly Princess Marina of Greece, pictured in her wedding dress of white and silver floral brocade designed by Captain Edward Molyneux

Royal Wedding 1934 - brides dress and Trent Park
Page from the Illustrated London News showing the wedding dress of Princess Marina of Greece on display alongside the wedding presents at St. Jamess Palace

Poster advertising holidays in Greece, with an idyllic view of the Bay of Athens. 20th century

Map of Greece, 1792
Map of Greece and Greek islands plus Romania (which appears on this map to be incorrectly labelled or positioned south of Bulgaria), Macedonia, Albania and parts of Turkey and Italy

Marriage of Princess Sophia of Greece / Don Juan Carlos of S
The wedding, in Athens, of Princess Sophia of Greece, now Queen Sofia of Spain (born 1938) and Infante Juan Carlos of Spain, now King Juan Carlos I of Spain (born 1938) on 14 May 1962. Date: 1962

Kitsch Greek Greetings Postcard
A kitsch Greek Greetings card, featuring a rather unusual bird (cross between a swallow and a dove!?) carrying a message of good wishes across the sea, surrounded by a border of red and pink flowers

Prince Andrew of Greece, with his wife, Princess Alice, daug
Prince Andrew of Greece pictured in uniform with his wife, Alice. He was in Command of the Greek Second Army Corps at the Battle of Sakaria

Odysseus & the Cyclops
Odysseus (Ulysses) plies Polyphemus the Cyclops with red wine, so that he and his men can escape from his cave and the prospect of being eaten alive

Odysseus & Penelope
Having killed the Suitors, the hero Odysseus (Ulysses) embraces his faithful wife, Penelope, while two adoring maids watch them

Greek Costume C. 500 Bc
Various Ancient Greek costumes; left to right - a warrior, a King, a woman and two mourning women

Ancient Greek Writing
He writes on a wax tablet with a stylus

Alexander and Porus
Alexander accepts the surrender of PORUS, king of the Pauravas, after defeating him on the Hydaspes (now Jhelum) river in northwest India/Pakistan

Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, Diving Bell
Alexander the Great, King Alexander III of Macedon. He is said to have used a diving vessel for seeing underwater

Archimedes, Greek mathematician and inventor

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, with the Marquess of Aberdeen, in the Royal Pavilion at Braemar

Princess Andreas (Andrew) of Greece
Princess Andrew of Greece (1885-1969), formerly Princess Alice of Battenberg, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria via her mother, Princess Victoria of Hesse

Plato (428-348 BC). Bust
Plato (428-348 BC). Greek philosopher. Bust. Marble. Roman copy of 1st century after a greek original of 4th century BC. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Homer (c. 8th century). Greek epic poet. Bust. Copy of an ori
Homer (c.8th century). Greek epic poet. Bust. Copy of an original from 2nd century BC. Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy. Rome. Italy

The Ascension. First half of the 17th century. Byzantine Museum. Zante. Ionian Islands. Greece

Acrobat. Minoian art
Acrobat. 16th c. BC. Minoan art / Cretan art. Sculpture on ivory. GREECE. CRETE. IRAKLION. Iraklion. Archaeological Museum. Proc: GREECE. CRETE. IRAKLION. Knossos. Knossos Palace

Mount Athos, Greece - Holy Monastery of Iviron
Holy Monastery of Iviron or Iveron, an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. Date: circa 1910s

Rue du Quai and the port, Thessaloniki, Greece Date: circa 1902

Hippocrates Saves Athens
By his sensible precautions, the Greek physician Hippocrates saves the people of Athens from the worst effects of the plague which threatens them

Tholos Tomb / Mycenae
Schliemann dubbed this majestic building the Treasury of Atreus but the capstone-topped ashlar corbelled masonry is actually that of a Tholos tomb

Greece / Ithaca 1863
Ithaca, in the Ionian Sea. The School of Homer Date: 1863

Alexanders Diving Bell
Alexander the Great, king of Greece, is said to have used a diving vessel for seeing underwater

Man and woman of the Mani or Maina peninsula, Greece. Illustration from Francois Pouquevilles Travels through More, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire, 1805

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