After getting a glimpse of these fabulous buildings from our tour bus, we decided to take a stroll uptown a bit to check out the University of Athens. On one website I was looking at, it stated that this is surely what ancient Greece looked like. Impressive!
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| Beautiful Apollo |
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| The Goddess Athena |
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| the smell of the orange blossoms is heavenly |
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| this can be none other than Socrates |
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| and his pupil Aristotle |
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| incredible pediment statuary - with Zeus and Athena |
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| this pediment features Athena in the middle |
Photos just can't express how grand this architecture truly is.
And, then we went inside...
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| what a room! |
We wandered to the next building, which is another impressive Greco-Roman building. However, there was a protest/hunger-strike gathering going on there, so I snapped this young man below, and we kept going onto the National Library.
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| that is the Library with the sweeping staircase |
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no wonder the US adopted this style of architecture for its government buildings -
they are very authoritative and impressive |
We couldn't take photos inside the library, nor could we browse through the titles. This library boasts books and codex that go back to the 9th century, so you can imagine that they don't want people just poking through them! What we could see, though, was impressive enough - very old books and bindings from floor to ceiling. The really old books were behind the shelves we could see. In order to look at a book, one has to request the book and be approved. Then, you come at your appointed time to sit with the book - no lending here. Very impressive.
1 comment:
That is really impressive!
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