The museum from outside. Little did I know what hidden gems waited within.
This is exactly the type of museum I like, with clearcut information on the walls and stuff to look at in the rooms.
Demeter and Persephone (Ceres and Proserpina in Latin) were pre-Olympian godesses, worshipped perhaps for milenniae by agricultural societies long before they were incorporated into the pantheon we think of as Greek mythology today.
The patron godess of Athens, Athene. In Latin, her name is Minerva.
Yours truly in front of one of only FIVE bronze statues left in Greece. The reason there aren't any more, is that when the Romans took over, they melted them down and used them for other purposes. The usually made copies first though, which is why Italy is full of copies of Greek art. This one survived because the ship it was on sank.
The rich aristocracy of Athens would spend quite a lot of time in the gym. In between workouts, they would amuse themselves with animal fights and... hockey?
Perhas you've seen this picture before? Or maybe you've spent most of your life hiding under a rock? They've got the original in Athens.
Trinkets and stuff.
In the small, but exquisite Egyptian section, they had this pre-dynastic hippo.
This as an Arabic horse with an Ethiopian boy on top. As Alexander the Great introduced ever new cultures to the Greek, they started making images of them.
This guy looks seriously kinky.
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