5000 years
By: pelly*made
Tags: ancient, architecture, art, Athens, city, color, culture, curiosities, Greece, photography, ruins, street, travel
Athens
wiki: The city of Athens, with its famous Acropolis, has come to symbolize the whole of the country in the popular imagination, and not without cause. Athens began as a small, Mycenaean community and grew to become a city that, at its height, epitomized the best of Greek virtues. Future conquerors would defeat Athens but not destroy it
Evidence of human habitation on the Acropolis and, below, in the area around the Agora, dates back clearly as far as 5000 BC and, probably, as early as 7000 BC. According to legend, the Athenian King Cecrops named the city after himself, but the gods, seeing how beautiful it was, felt it deserved an immortal name. A contest was held among the gods on the Acropolis, with Cecrops and the citizenry looking on, to determine which deity would win the honor
Poseidon struck a rock with his trident and, as water gushed forth, he assured the people that now they would never suffer drought. Athena was next in line and dropped a seed into the earth which sprouted swiftly as an olive tree. The people thought the olive tree more valuable than the water (as, according to some versions of the story, the water was salty, as was Poseidon’s realm) and Athena was chosen as patron and the city named for her
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pelly * made 
Nope. I can’t spot you waving down there in amongst all those homes dear Pelly. I did look ! 😉 ❤
That’s strange! I thought it would be a piece of cake 😀
I spotted the piece of cake, that was easy ! lol ❤
Nice clarity in these pics Pelly. One day, finally, I will get to Athens!
Alison
Thanks Alison. They were shot during winter maybe that’s why.
I hope you do, really and I’ll be glad to give you some info 🙂
Hi Pelly, I would love to use one of these images for a blog post I am writing on my blog about the polykatoikia. Do you think you might allow it with suitable attribution and link? Datelineatlantis.wordpress.com
With pleasure Atlantis Host 🙂
Please send me a link when your post gets published; I’d love to read about the polykatoikia 😀
Oh! There’s another post of mine about the Athenian “landscape” It’s called “My Wall” https://pellymade.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/my-wall/
Thanks! Great photos!
🙂
We live in a great city, aren’t we…! 😉
Will do!
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