Piraeus
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Piraeus is a port city within the Athens urban area, in the Attica region of Greece. It is located eight kilometres southwest of Athens city centre along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf in the Athe
Funerary relief for a girl, flanked by her parents (330/320 BC); Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
The Long Walls connecting the ancient city of Athens to its port of Piraeus.
Colossal statue of Hadrian of Piraeus.
The customs office of the port of Piraeus in 1837. Watercolor by the Bavarian captain Ludwig Köllnberger.
Classical Athens
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Athens, was a prominent city-state of ancient Greece during the classical period, in the peninsula of Attica. Athens was a centre for the arts, learning, and philosophy, and is widely referred to as a
Early Athenian coin, 5th century BC. British Museum
The modern National Academy in Athens, with Apollo and Athena on their columns, and Socrates and Plato seated in front.
The Acropolis imagined in an 1846 painting by Leo von Klenze
The Temple of Hephaestus in modern-day Athens