Evan Levineさんのイラストまとめ

Just up the road from Sanctuary of Nemesis is the town of Rhamnous itself & if you ever want to get a feel for a small town in Classical/Hellenistic Athens, this is the place! The site is extensively excavated & carefully reconstructed to give an impression of the urban footprint

The aforementioned statue of hubristic fame was destroyed in the 4th CE, but enough fragments remain to say a lot about it! Varro tells us the sculptor Agorakritos—Phidias’ student—made a 4m tall masterpiece. The statue itself stood on this beautiful base with sculpture in relief

Before talking about the large temple, an anecdote of the goddess Nemesis, here by #Dürer at @LACMA. Her main task was punishing hubris & Pausanias writes that the Persians were so sure they’d defeat the Greeks that they brought a block of Parian marble w them for their trophy...

Although I’ve visited the #Athens Acropolis a million times, I never get tired of learning about new ways of representing it! Check out these woodblock prints of the Propylaea in 1925 by Yoshida Hiroshi at the @mfaboston, showing day & night!
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While the female was buried with lots of jewelry and a knife, the male was cremated and his remains were placed in linen cloth inside a 200 year old bronze amphora from Cyprus. This seems to mimic practices described in Homer mythology for the heroes Patroclus, Achilles, & Hector

Our first stop of the day was at the 13/14th c church of Panagia Kera at Kritsa. The church is notable for its incredible wall paintings, which depict all sorts of themes including punishments for some distinctly rural crimes. Here we see the goat thief and the dishonest miller!