Living TRAVEL - GREECE - 1965, 75

The historic sites of the Peloponnese Peninsula
  


One end of the canal which cuts across the isthmus joining the mainland west of Athens at Loutraki to the Peloponnese peninsula
 

General views - and below
 

 

Island of Poros
 

Corinth (the first town across the Isthmus)
    

Looking inland from Acro Corinth
 

Ruins of a 16th century Venetian castle, Acro Corinth
 

Temple of Apollo 6th century
 

 

Looking from a 16th century citadel - to Nafplion
 

     

Mycenae (Peloponnese)
    

Lion Gate - 12th century BC
Looking over the Lion gate
 

The Circle of the Kings - 10th century BC

Below - artefacts found at Mycenae
 

Gold tiara
 

Gold Death Mask
 

Crystal bowl
 

Olympia (Peloponnese)
    


Palaestra - and below
 

 

Metope from the Temple of Zeus - Relief sculpture of Atlas
with the golden apples, while Hercules holds his earthly burden
 
Marble statue of Hermes by Praxiletes 4th century BC

Mistra (Peloponnese)
     

Byzantine village and monastery
 

Ceiling painting in the monastery


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Palaestra (at Olympia): Open court with peristyle; west of the Sanctuary of Zeus (Altis), between the Theokoleon and the Gymnasium. ca. 400 B.C. - 300 B.C.
Doric peristyle court, 19 x 19 columns, with water channel and series of rooms arranged on all 4 sides. On the south side of the peristyle was a colonnade of 15 Ionic columns and a small entrance room at either corner. On the north side an ephebeum (exercise room) had an inner colonnade of 9 Ionic columns. On the west and east sides of the court, smaller colonnades and doors open onto various rooms. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/architindex?entry=Olympia,Palaestra