Showing posts with label Cecrops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cecrops. Show all posts

Sunday, November 20, 2016

The descendants of Cecrops and Electra























Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Acropolis of Athens





Athena thinking...  Acropolis Museum





Parthenon - Acropolis Museum





East pediment of the Parthenon - The birth of Athena

West pediment of the Parthenon - The quarrel of Athena and Poseidon for the patronage of Athens




The Parthenon Frieze


Block N IV - Four hydriaphoroi carry water








Athena defeating Encelados - From the Old Parthenon - Acropolis Museum



Statue of an Owl - Acropolis Museum

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Cecropia



       Cecrops I, King of Cecropia                                         Cecrops - from an Attic red figure (440 BC) - Berlin





The three wise daemons (half snakes) from the pediment
of the Old Parthenon. They are holding fire, water and a bird.
Acropolis Museum






Herakles and Antaios - Crater by Euphronios
HERAKLES is written with the old Greek alphabet,
and ANTAIOS from right to left.
On the upper part we read... ΕΦΡΟΝΙΟΣ ΕΓΡΑΦΣΕΝ.











Τutankhamun


One of my oil paintings (1985)
60 cm x 80 cm
From the back cover of my book
"Cheops, the great Architect" (1990).