Sunday, May 4, 2008

Athens day 2: Archeological Museum






The next morning we started off our day at the National Archeological Museum - home of the most important collection of ancient Greek art in the world. Once again...Amazing! Such imaculate works! To think that this is what was left over after centuries of looting and destruction. Incredible! If only I could see everything the way it was originally. I bet nothing of the modern world could even begin to compare.
This interesting statue is of a naked Aphrodite fending off the sexual advances of Pan...with her sandal (once again, sorry it is sideways)

1 comment:

john said...

i am so jealous. seriously. that is the only word i can use.