Herodes Atticus
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Herodes Atticus was an Athenian rhetorician, as well as a Roman senator. A great philanthropic magnate, he and his wife Appia Annia Regilla, for whose murder he was potentially responsible, commission
Herodes Atticus bust, from his villa at Kephissia. mid-2nd century
Herodes Atticus. Marble, ca. 161 AD. Found in Probalinthos, Attica— Louvre, Paris
Polydeukes, favourite of Herodes Atticus – Altes Museum, Berlin
Memnon the Ethiopian, foster child and student of Herodes Atticus; marble, c. 170 AD, from the villa of Herodes Atticus (Altes Museum, Berlin)
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
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The Odeon of Herodes Atticus is a stone Greek theatre structure located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece. The building was completed in AD 161 and then renovated in 1950.
Herodes Atticus
…The Panathenaic Stadium – Athens Odeon – Athens; built to honour the memory of his wife A theatre at Corinth…
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Historical image of Odeon of Herodes Atticus (ca. 1880)
Odeon of Herodus Atticus, 1870–1880. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection, Boston Public Library
Herbert von Karajan and the Orchestra of the Athens Conservatory (later to become the Athens State Orchestra) at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus (1939)