The Acropolis
The front of the Acropolis, with the only point of entry
The back of the Acropolis
Turtle hanging out at the Acropolis
The Acropolis Amphitheater. Sorry dad, no Yanni sightings.
The Temple of Athena Nike. Completed in 420 B.C.
The back of the Temple of Athena Nike. I hate scaffolding.
The Parthenon. Completed in 432 B.C.
The back of the Parthenon
More goddamn scaffolding
The Erechtheion. Completed in 406 B.C.
The front of the Erechtheion
One more Erechtheion shot
The Caryatids
Walking to the Ancient Agora
The Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Agora
Looking all the way through
View of the entire Ancient Agora
The Stoa of Attalus II
Lord Voldemort?
Hadrian's Library
The Roman Agora
Walking up to the Theater of Dionysus
Theater of Dionysus. Used to be able to hold 17,000 people.
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, as seen from the Acropolis. Hadrian's Arch is towards the bottom.
Hadrian's Arch
The foundations were laid by Pisistratus in 515 B.C., but the temple wasn't actually completed until Emperor Hadrian's reign in 129 A.D.
The remaining columns. There used to be 104.
The fallen column, which was blown down during a wind storm in 1852
Oops
The Acropolis at night
Drinking games at the hostel. I'm looking really sunburned.
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