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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2753728, member: 80783&quot;]I just came back from a visit to Athens and here are some impressions for those who might not have been there yet <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Temple of Olympian Zeus was probably once the largest Temple in the Greek world. It was begun in 520 b.C. and completed by Hadrian some 628 years later, only to be damaged beyond repair during the Herculean invasion of 267:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]631325[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian was a great patron of Athens and was honored with a triumphal arch:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]631323[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Theatre of Herodes Atticus, built during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, is still in use today:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]631326[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Temple of Hephahestos (inaugurated in 415 b.C.) is probably the best preserved Greek Temple of them all, having been saved from destruction in the middle Ages by being used as a church for more than a thousand years:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]631329[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Propylaea, monumental gateway to the Acropolis (built in the 430s b.C.):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]631330[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninus and me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]631328[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As this is a coin site after all, here is a hoard of 54 bronzes (Augustus to Salonina) of Nicopolis, found at Epirus in 1934, at the Athens Numismatic Museum:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]631322[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Sunny greetings to all of you!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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