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  • Above a statue of the ancient Greek God Apollo, a contract window cleaner wipes window glass of Osprey in Lower Regent Street, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
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  • Watched by a statue of the ancient Greek God Apollo, a window shopper looks into the Osprey retailer in Lower Regent Street, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
    west_end_people-02-02-05-2019.jpg
  • Above a statue of the ancient Greek God Apollo, a contract window cleaner wipes window glass of Osprey in Lower Regent Street, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
    west_end_people-03-02-05-2019.jpg
  • A cast copy of a classical ancient Greek statue of Apollo in a shop window near Piccadilly Circus, on 30th April 2019, in London, England
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  • A cast copy of a classical ancient Greek statue of Apollo in a shop window near Piccadilly Circus, on 30th April 2019, in London, England
    west_end-06-30-04-2019.jpg
  • Above a statue of the ancient Greek God Apollo, a contract window cleaner wipes window glass of Osprey in Lower Regent Street, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
    west_end_people-05-02-05-2019.jpg
  • Above a statue of the ancient Greek God Apollo, a contract window cleaner wipes window glass of Osprey in Lower Regent Street, on 2nd May 2019, in London, England.
    west_end_people-04-02-05-2019.jpg
  • Visitors in London's British Museum admire the Ancient Greek Parthenon Metopes also knows as the Elgin Marbles. 92 Metopes were rectangular slabs placed over the columns of the Athens Parthenon temple depicting scenes from Greek mythology.
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  • Young boys in London's British Museum play near the Ancient Greek Parthenon Metopes also knows as the Elgin Marbles. 92 Metopes were rectangular slabs placed over the columns of the Athens Parthenon temple depicting scenes from Greek mythology.
    elgin_marbles08-19-02-2012.jpg
  • Girls in London's British Museum admire the Ancient Greek Parthenon Metopes also knows as the Elgin Marbles. 92 Metopes were rectangular slabs placed over the columns of the Athens Parthenon temple depicting scenes from Greek mythology.
    elgin_marbles06-19-02-2012.jpg
  • Woman photographs photograpss the Ancient Greek Parthenon Metopes also knows as the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. 92 Metopes were rectangular slabs placed over the columns of the Athens Parthenon temple depicting scenes from Greek mythology.
    elgin_marbles05-19-02-2012.jpg
  • Visitors in London's British Museum admire the Ancient Greek Parthenon Metopes also knows as the Elgin Marbles. 92 Metopes were rectangular slabs placed over the columns of the Athens Parthenon temple depicting scenes from Greek mythology.
    elgin_marbles01-19-02-2012.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, a visitor to the British Museum wearing a face covering reads decriptions of an ancient Greek vase that depicts the wedding of Peleus and Thetis along with imaginary animals (Athens, c580BC) by painter, Sophilos, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England. Some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the historical artifacts at this poluar London attraction.
    british_museum18-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, a visitor to the British Museum wearing a face covering reads decriptions of an ancient Greek vase that depicts the wedding of Peleus and Thetis along with imaginary animals (Athens, c580BC) by painter, Sophilos, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England. Some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the historical artifacts at this poluar London attraction.
    british_museum19-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Tourists walk towards The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, a 2nd century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world.
    louvre_paris16-17-08-2012.jpg
  • A tourist crouches on the original 4th century marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and at the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
    greek_olympiad005-20-10_2003.jpg
  • Visitors admire the heads of ancient Greek Hellenistic philosophers (L-R): Sokrates, Antisthenes, Chrysippus and Epikouros, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-21-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Visitors admire the heads of ancient Greek Hellenistic philosophers (L-R): Sokrates, Antisthenes, Chrysippus and Epikouros, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-23-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Visitors admire the heads of ancient Greek Hellenistic philosophers (L-R): Sokrates, Antisthenes, Chrysippus and Epikouros, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-22-11-04-2018.jpg
  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos (of about 325-300BC) in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus (Roman equivalent Jupiter) and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
    british_museum-24-28-02-2017.jpg
  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos (of about 325-300BC) in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus (Roman equivalent Jupiter) and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
    british_museum-23-28-02-2017.jpg
  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos (of about 325-300BC) overlooks the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus (Roman equivalent Jupiter) and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
    british_museum-20-28-02-2017.jpg
  • Lely's Venus (Aphrodite) in the British Museum, London. Here, the Godess Venus is surprised as she bathes, her water jar resting on her thigh. She crouches naked and attempts to cover herself with arms and hands. Naked Aphrodite was a popular subject with ancient Greek sculptors as she was with the Romans who called her Venus. This statue is a Roman copy of the Greek original, probably made in the 1st or 2nd century.
    british_museum18-14-01-2016.jpg
  • Lely's Venus (Aphrodite) in the British Museum, London. Here, the Godess Venus is surprised as she bathes, her water jar resting on her thigh. She crouches naked and attempts to cover herself with arms and hands. Naked Aphrodite was a popular subject with ancient Greek sculptors as she was with the Romans who called her Venus. This statue is a Roman copy of the Greek original, probably made in the 1st or 2nd century.
    british_museum17-14-01-2016.jpg
  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos (of about 325-300BC) in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus (Roman equivalent Jupiter) and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
    british_museum-25-28-02-2017.jpg
  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos (of about 325-300BC) overlooks the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus (Roman equivalent Jupiter) and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
    british_museum-21-28-02-2017.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum23-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum24-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum25-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum26-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum28-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Visitors admire the sculpture of the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-15-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Visitors admire the sculpture of the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-14-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Visitors admire the sculpture of the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-13-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum27-02-09-2020.jpg
  • A British lady applies a layer of sun cream to her hand on a beach in Magaluf.  In the foreground, and aligned with the lady's own body is a sun lounger with a beach towel draped over which depicts the torso and legs of a cartoon Hercules Adonis character complete in ancient Greek style with muscular thighs and short skirt. In the background is a hotel building and two other tourists with their tanned backs towards the viewer. Magaluf is a popular holiday resort on the island of Mallorca, one of the Spanish Balearic Islands. A seedy resort very much orientated around British tourists and catering for both young parties as well as families, it is considered as a hot and exotic alternative to the chilly seaside towns around the UK's coast.  .
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy looking at the Nereid Monument (constructed 390-380BC and restored in the 1960s) and other historical artifacts at the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum20-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the Elgin Marbles and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum29-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Abandoned neon pub sign is on the famous Marathonas Avenue near Nea Makri, the original route that the Athenian messenger Pheidippides ran in 490BC. The runner was sent to deliver word of the Greek victory over Persia at the Battle of Marathon. Running 240 km (150 miles) in two days to request help when the Persians landed, he then ran the 40 km (26 miles) from the battlefield Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon with the words 'We have won'. The story inspired the marathon and at the birthplace of modern sports at ancient Olympia, where for 1,000 continuous years, the ancient pagan festival of sport and debauchery were held. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered even then, as now.
    greek_olympiad008-21-10_2003.jpg
  • Tourists lunge over the original 4th century start/finish line in the stadium at Olympia. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium. On the grassy bank in the background is where the seating once accommodated the many sporting pilgrims who travelled to this place from all over Greece during agreed warfare truces in the weeks of the Olympic festival. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past..
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  • Two ladies are shopping in a tourist trinket store in the Plaka shopping centre, the largest official Olympic merchandising outlet in downtown Athens. The 29th modern Olympic circus is gearing up for business and official and unofficial souvenirs are on sale here, including postcards and table mats with various works of art available on a rack. We see the Parthenon on the Acropolis Hill, Michelangelo's 'Hands of God and Adam' image from the Sistine Chapel. 'Last Supper' by Leonardo da Vinci and a landscape from ancient Olympia, the birthplace of modern athletics and of the Olympic ideal. The Olympics came home to Greece in 2004 amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. Corruption, politics, cheating and commercialism interfered with the ancient and modern games.
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  • The ancient Parthenon (circa 400 BC, the largest Doric temple ever built) sits on Acropolis hill surrounded by global tourists and scaffolding. Here the modern world's philosophy was born, once the centre of classical Greek culture which the world has inherited for its laws and forward-thinking. Mounted above the Athenian city within fortified 60m high walls, its history is a World Heritage Site, important because of its "universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex." The establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world.
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  • Standing in the corner of a brightly sun-lit window, a classical reproduction bust is seen in a hotel foyer in the modern town of Olympia, the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal. Amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad002-20-10_2003.jpg
  • Fallen Ionic and Doric columns lay in the undergrowth at Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and in the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery here. These fluted columns that date to about 400BC that now lie in the shade were originally piled on top of each other to construct - among other buildings too - the Temple of Zeus. There, the athletes made offerings to Nike, the Goddess of Victory before going out to compete in the many sports. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
    greek_olympiad004-20-10_2003.jpg
  • A toilet sign sits near the standing Doric columns and tourists at Olympia's Palaestra or wrestling school. Here, training, instruction and bathing took place in the month before the Games. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad003-20-10_2003.jpg
  • Elite ceremonial soldiers called Evzones or Proedriki Froura (Presidential Guard), parade on Acropolis Hill, Athens. This special contingent of the light infantry unit are on duty at the Acropolis during the national holiday of 'No Day,' celebrating the day when Mussolini was denied a marching route through Greece in 1941. The Acropolis was once the centre of classical Greek culture which the world has inherited for its laws and philosophical thinking. Mounted above the Athenian city within fortified 60m high walls, its history is a World Heritage Site, important because of its "universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex." The establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world.
    greek_olympiad012-23-10_2003.jpg
  • The last moments of street lighting illuminates the pavement and road as dawn breaks over the shoreline on the untidy and empty seafront in Nea Makri, a coastal town near Athens on the Marathon road. This town is the original route that the Athenian messenger Pheidippides ran in 490BC to deliver news of the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of (Marathonas) Marathon. Nowadays, this is a rather unattractive town with few echoes of Greece's ancient glories although the 29th modern Olympic circus came home in 2004. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad009-21-10_2003.jpg
  • On a partially-demolished building, a mural of the ancient  Goddess Nike remains chipped and scraped on an old restaurant wall. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers at the Temple of Zeus before competition but this site is in the heart of the modern town of Olympia that has grown up around the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad001-20-10_2003.jpg
  • White plaster or cement Goddess statuettes stand on sale on the forecourt of a garden art business in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The mostly female figurines are in various poses but are all nudes and are in various gestures of a classical heroic style. Those in the foreground have their arms at the heads and moulded breasts and bodies to show the perfect female form while further to the back are male Gods placed on plinths and in recesses. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery.
    greek_olympiad011-23-10_2003.jpg
  • In afternoon sunshine, autumn leaves and far away mountains with light cloud on their peaks are viewed from across a clear valley landscape, seen from the roadside near Levidi in Arcadia, between Tripolis and Argos on the Peloponnese region of south-western Greece. At 850m above sea level, pine forests and the slopes of the Mainalo mountains (a mountain range that spans about 15 to 20 from north to south (southwest of Tripolis to NE of Vytina), surrounds the town which lies to the west. The valley contains potato agriculture and mixed farming and extends up to near Kandila. The athlete called Androsthenes was from Maenalus, won gold at the ancient Olympics in 420 and 416 BC.
    greek_olympiad007-21-10_2003.jpg
  • In the peristyle of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii is a fresco  where an ancient painted mural to the Greek Goddess Urania was unearthed from volcanic ash after 2,000 years. In Greek mythology, Urania which stems from the Greek word for 'heavenly' or 'of heaven', was the muse of astronomy. Some accounts list her as the mother of the musician Linus, usually depicted as having a globe in her left hand, she can foretell the future by the arrangement of the stars and is often associated with Universal Love and the Holy Spirit. Those who are most concerned with philosophy and the heavens are dearest to her. Painted before the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in AD79, the frescoes have been uncovered from metre-layers of ash and pumice but are now fading from moisture and cracked plaster.
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  • Visitors admire the Roman versions of hero warrior Protesilaos sculpture - the first Greek warrior to land and die in Troy, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors admire the Roman versions of hero warrior Protesilaos sculpture - the first Greek warrior to land and die in Troy, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-18-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Modern town of Olympia. A resident of modern Olympia makes her way down the main street of the trinket town past a tourist a tourist graphic of the original pentathlon. Where the ruins can now be visited few miles away, the ancient Olympics were born. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Statue of a victorious athlete, a Roman version of a Greek bronze original of about 440-430BC, found by the Roman theatre at Vaison, France but perhaps from a nearby villa. Known as Diadoumensos, it represents a triumphant athlete tying a ribbon round his head. At Greek festivals, it was the custom to give red ribbons to the winners of games. He may symbolise athletic victories in general, rather than an individual.
    british_museum12-14-01-2016.jpg
  • A 62-page introduction of editorial images by the English photographer Richard Baker. It contains projects and assignments that are biased towards medium format<br />
colour negative film with a selection of 35mm transparency-sourced work found on pages 60/61 with About Me and Contact details on page 62. Subjects include: Olympiad, Journeys in ancient Greece on Marathon Road, Athens, Sacred Precinct of Zeus in ancient Olympia and the Acropolis; Monica Ali's Bangladeshi Brick Lane; Inside the BBC; the rally driver Richard Burns; 100 years of aviation; One week after 9/11; solo images from Ireland, Lithuania, England and Florida. This folio is directed towards picture editors and art directors.
    RichardBaker_editorial_folio.pdf
  • A tour leader takes her group past Greek and Roman sculpture in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A detail of the 2nd century Roman copy from Greek original of Demeter holding a torch, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-51-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A wheelchair user is between 2nd century Roman copies from Greek originals of Demeter holding a torch (L) and Gannymede with the eagle of Zeus (R), in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-50-11-04-2018.jpg
  • 2nd century Roman copies from Greek originals of Demeter holding a torch (L) and Gannymede with the eagle of Zeus (R), in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-46-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A visitor admires a sculpture of Cupid, a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-45-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A visitor admires a sculpture of Cupid, a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-44-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Visitors admire the sculpture of Rondanini's Faun - a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original - in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-42-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A young visitor inspects classical literature near the the sculpture of Rondanini's Faun - a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original - in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-41-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Visitors admire the sculpture of Rondanini's Faun - a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original - in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-37-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A detail of the 2nd century Roman copy from Greek original of Demeter holding a torch, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-52-11-04-2018.jpg
  • 2nd century Roman copies from Greek originals of Demeter holding a torch (L) and Gannymede with the eagle of Zeus (R), in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-47-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A visitor admires a sculpture of Cupid, a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original, in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-43-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A visitor uses his phone instead of admiring the sculpture of Rondanini's Faun - a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original - in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-39-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Visitors admire the sculpture of Rondanini's Faun - a 2nd century Roman copy of a Greek original - in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-38-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Visitors admire the Greek Three Nereids (390-380BC) in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-17-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Visitors admire the Greek Three Nereids (390-380BC) in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
    british_museum-16-11-04-2018.jpg
  • A Chinese tour group listen to historical commentary about the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles in the British Museum, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors learn about the British Museum's Elgin Marbles that originate from the Parthenon in Athens, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
    british_museum-22-27-02-2017.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first young visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the Elgin Marbles and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum21-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, a door is open to allow fresh air into the room containing the Elgin Marbles and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
    british_museum22-02-09-2020.jpg
  • Visitors admire the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles in Room 18 of the British Museum, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • A visitor walks around the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles in Room 18 of the British Museum, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors ignore the antiquities of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum that originate from the Parthenon in Athens, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • Visitors pose in front of the British Museum's Elgin Marbles that originate from the Parthenon in Athens, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
    british_museum-03-27-02-2017.jpg
  • A visitor leans to learn about the The Head of the Horse of Selene, part of the British Museum's Elgin Marbles that originate from the Parthenon in Athens, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • Ancient Greek texts on statue plinth. Original texts on a statue plinth near the main tunneled entrance of the 'Stadion', Ancient Olympia's running track. heroic athletes had statues commissioned in their victorious honour as well as past cheats whose dishonesty discouraged others into making the Olympics a festival of honesty. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Original Olympic track, ancient Olympia. English tourist family lunge for their own Olympic victory at Olympia's original start/finish line in the stadium. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium'. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Nike trainers on the ancient Olympia's start line. A tourist crouches on the original marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • A portrait of Britain's first lady deacon, Christine Farrington at Salisbury Cathedral. Standing outside the grand architecture of this fine English structure. Deacon is a ministry in the Christian Church that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. In many traditions the "diaconate", the term for a deacon's office, is a clerical office; in others it is for laity. The word "deacon" is derived from the Greek word diakonos, standard ancient Greek for "servant", "waiting-man", "minister" or "messenger". Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, and is considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture. The main body was completed in only 38 years, from 1220 to 1258.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy Lely's Venus (Aphrodite) the historical artifacts at the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England. Naked Aphrodite was a popular subject with ancient Greek sculptors as she was with the Romans who called her Venus. This statue is a Roman copy of the Greek original, probably made in the 1st or 2nd century.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy Lely's Venus (Aphrodite) the historical artifacts at the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England. Naked Aphrodite was a popular subject with ancient Greek sculptors as she was with the Romans who called her Venus. This statue is a Roman copy of the Greek original, probably made in the 1st or 2nd century.
    british_museum33-02-09-2020.jpg
  • A portrait of Britain's first lady deacon, Christine Farrington at Salisbury Cathedral. Standing in the grand architecture of the nave. Deacon is a ministry in the Christian Church that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. In many traditions the "diaconate", the term for a deacon's office, is a clerical office; in others it is for laity. The word "deacon" is derived from the Greek word diakonos, standard ancient Greek for "servant", "waiting-man", "minister" or "messenger". Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, and is considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture. The main body was completed in only 38 years, from 1220 to 1258.
    woman_deacon02-12-03-1994.jpg
  • Original Olympic track, ancient Olympia. Tourists play out their own Olympic heroism on the original athletic track at ancient Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Roadworks on Marathon Avenue. Road works and an Athens Olympic sign on Marathonas Avenue, the ancient Marathon route of 490 BC in an Athens suburb. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past... . ancient, antiquities, archaeology, athens, athletics, baker, cable, capital, ceremony, city, classical, colour, compete, competing, construction, darnening, delay, dirt, EU, europe, european, exercise, famous, game, games, games, gods, Greece, Greek, guard, history, history, hole, landmark, landscape, light, makri, marathon, marathonas, medal, member, mess, mess, nea, news, olympia, Olympic, Olympic rings, olympics, orginal, original, Parthenon, photojournalism, protected, race, racing, reportage, richard, rings, roadworks, route, ruin, ruins, shadows, sky, soil, soldiers, sport, sporting, start, starting, state, summer, tourists, travel, travel, travel, world, wrestling
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  • Buying Greek Olympic tourist trinkets, Athens. Lady tourists select holiday souvenirs in Plaka shopping centre, the largest official Olympic merchandising outlet, down town Athens. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
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