The statue of Pallas #Athena, goddess of wisdom, at the Academy of Athens.

The Cave of Zeus on the Acropolis was a Shrine where the Olympian God appears to be worshipped in his chthonic aspect! | Greece

One of the three pillars of the Greek cuisine is the olive oil. Greeks are in love with the olive oil and it is them who consume more olive oil than anybody else around the world! Twenty liters per head while the Spanish who produce more olive oil consume 11 liters oil per head.

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Terracotta head of Dionysus, 1st century B.C. | Dionysus, god of wine and the pleasures it can bring, was extremely popular during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The Greek kings who ruled the lands conquered by Alexander the Great took him as patron deity, and the Romans, impressed by the luxury and wealth of those kingdoms, filled their private villas with images of the god. | Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This head comes from a group, probably of the blinding of Polyphemos, similar to that constructed from fragments found in the grotto at Sperlonga, along the Italian coast southwest of Rome. Polyphemos is based, in details of hair and beard, on a Pergamene centaur. The sculptor was wise in rejecting the older tradition, one seen in Hellenistic terracottas, of showing the monstrous giant as a kind of fat-faced baboon, with large ears and his eye set like a beacon light in the middle of his…

Apollo was a youthful god who presided over a wide variety of activities, from the initiation of boys into manhood to the utterance of oracles. His attributes were the bow and the lyre. This small figure, which would have been dedicated at the god's sanctuary, has a bow in the left hand and probably poured a libation from a phiale in the right hand

Small group walking tours and activities offering innovative, fresh and memorable activities to visitors, showing to them the grand monuments of the past and contemporary Greece, as well asthe delightful variety of Greek food

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Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.Macedonia,Greece.The bronze and gilded crater of Derveni (Detail).It represents the sacred marriage of Dionysos and Ariadne. Around 330 BC. Μακεδονία,...

The famous Winged Victory of Samothrace, which was staged in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods at elevated base like a ship stern (about 200-190 BC). Η περίφημη Φτερωτή Νίκη τής Σαμοθράκης που ήταν...

Death, or Thanatos, is the counterpart of life. Death being represented as male, and life as female. He is the twin brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep. He is typically shown with his brother and is...

Mars disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces by Jacques -Louis David. Ο Άρης αφοπλισμένος από την Αφροδίτη και τις Τρεις Χάριτες από τον Ζακ - Λουί Νταβίντ.