Greece Collection (page 5)

Events / Ancient Rome
The Romans admire the works of art they have looted from Greece

The Parthenon, Athens

Ancient Greek warships, the upper one with a turret. Date: BCE

Canal at Corinth, Greece. Date: circa 1930

Socrates (470-399 BC). Bust
Socrates (470-399 BC). Athenian philosopher. Bust. Marble. Roman copy of 2nd century after a greek original of 4th century. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Parthenon. Athens. Greece
Greece. Athens. Parthenon. 447-438 BC. in Doric style under leadership of Pericles. The building was designed by the architects Ictinos and Callicrates. Acropolis

Golden earrings with shaped like a dolphin
Earrings with shaped like a dolphin. Gold. From Taranto. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Athens. Panoramic view of the Acropolis. Parthenon. Attica. Central Greece

Athens. Panoramic view of the Acropolis at night. Attica. Central Greece

Chaging of the guard. Athens. Greece
Changing of the guar. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Athens. Attica. Greece

Sophocles - Greek playwright
Sophocles (495-406 BC) - Greek playwright. Sophocles wrote 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form

Patriotic Greek Card from the First World War - Thessaloniki
Patriotic Greek Card from the First World War showing the Greeks triumphing over the Turks - including one atop the White Tower at Thessaloniki. Date: 1916

Island of Lemnos, Greece in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Front view. Date: circa 1910s

Family of five on a motorcycle in Rhodes, Greece
A family of five on a Zundapp motorcycle in Rhodes, Greece

View of Nafplio, Greece
Panoramic view of Nafplio (or Nauplion) from the sea. A town on the Peloponnese in Greece. Capital of Greece from 1829 to 1834 and the place where Capodistria

Alonissos, Greece
The small harbour of Votsi with its beautiful turquoise water

TROPHONIUS, architect of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, subsequently had his own oracle at Lebadeia, Boeotia (Greece)

Death of Botsaris, 1823
Insurrection against Turks: The death of Markos Botsaris, patriot leader. Date: 1823

Thessaloniki, Greece - The White Tower and German Aircraft
Souvenir of Thessaloniki - Greece - WWI era - inset picture of a captured German Biplane on display close to the White Tower Date: 1916

Washington DC, USA - Library of Congress Mural - Orpheus
Washington DC, USA - Mural Painting - The Greek Heroes by Walter McEwen (1860-1943). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Orpheus. Slain by the Bacchantes. Date: 1920

Thessaloniki - Macedonian Shepherd Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Turkish Coffee seller having a quick cigarette break before taking his coffee tray to his next customer. Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Turkish Woman in extraordinary voluminous leggings! Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Poultry and Vegetable Salesman. Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Dervishes, Lemonade Seller and foreign troops Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Preparing the Aperitif Mastic and Mezza. In medieval times, mastic was highly valued by sultans harems as a breath freshener and a tooth whitener

Thessaloniki - Tin Village wedding Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Cretan Policeman, Jews and Serbian Officers Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Macedonian Peasants and British Soldier Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Street Traders and Foreign Military Personnel
Street Traders, including a shoeshine boy, a cigarette seller and a porter - all finding plenty of cutom amongst the foreign troops staioned in Thessaloniki (Indian, French and British)

Thessaloniki, Greece - Street Porter Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki, Greece - Lemonade Seller Date: circa 1916

Base of a funerary kouros with six athletes. 510 -500 BC. Archaic Greek art. Relief on marble. GREECE. Athens. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: GREECE. Athens. Acropolis

Thesalonika - The decorated quays Date: circa 1910s

British stretcher cases, Salonika, WW1
British stretcher cases awaiting transfer to a ship at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: 1916

Thessaloniki, Greece - Church of St Demetrios Date: circa 1910s

H. R. H. Princess Marina of Greece
Princess Marina of Greece (1906 - 1968), Duchess of Kent in the special issue of The Bystander celebrating her marriage to Prince George, Duke of Kent in November 1934. Date: 1934

Wedding number of The Sketch
Special wedding number front cover celebrating the marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece, later Duchess of Kent in November 1934. Date: 5th December 1934

Island of Thassos, Greece - Street Scene
Thassos on the Island of Thassos, Greece - Street Scene

Greece - Zakynthos - The Saint Charalambos River
Greece - Zakynthos (Zante) - The Saint Charalambos River

Greek Royalty - King Constantine I (5 / 8)
King Constantine I of Greece (1868 - 1923) - became King in 1913, on this card he is noted as Heir Apparent hence the date is pre-1913

Jewish Cemetery at Salonika, greece

Poster advertising motor coach tours in Greece, arranged by the National Tourist Organization in cooperation with the travel agencies in Greece

Cretan Military Leader
A Greek Cretan patriot

Salonika - damage after French attacks
The damage caused by bombardment by the French 75th Division close to Doiran on Salonika during the Mediterranean Campaign

Tomb of Hephaistion
The tomb erected by Alexander for Hephaistion, one of his generals, when he is killed in battle

Rebellion in Crete
The Cretans have another go at getting rid of their Turkish rulers : Turkish forces advance against the insurgents at Fort Paleocastro : this attempt fails like the others

Alcibiades Acclaimed
Alcibiades is acclaimed by the people of Athens when he returns after victories over the Spartans

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