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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
  • 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_marbles03-19-02-2012.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
  • 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
  • A day after Commons Speaker John Bercow announced his refusal to accept Prime Minster Theresa May's third Brexit Meaningful Vote, a Brexiteer holds a sign that refers to the stables in which the mythical Argonaut King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years. The cleaning of these stables was accomplished by Hercules, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-21-19-03-2019.jpg
  • A day after Commons Speaker John Bercow announced his refusal to accept Prime Minster Theresa May's third Brexit Meaningful Vote, a Brexiteer holds a sign that refers to the stables in which the mythical Argonaut King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years. The cleaning of these stables was accomplished by Hercules, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-17-19-03-2019.jpg
  • A day after Commons Speaker John Bercow announced his refusal to accept Prime Minster Theresa May's third Brexit Meaningful Vote, a Brexiteer holds a sign that refers to the stables in which the mythical Argonaut King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years. The cleaning of these stables was accomplished by Hercules, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-22-19-03-2019.jpg
  • A day after Commons Speaker John Bercow announced his refusal to accept Prime Minster Theresa May's third Brexit Meaningful Vote, a Brexiteer holds a sign that refers to the stables in which the mythical Argonaut King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years. The cleaning of these stables was accomplished by Hercules, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-20-19-03-2019.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A day after Commons Speaker John Bercow announced his refusal to accept Prime Minster Theresa May's third Brexit Meaningful Vote, a Brexiteer holds a sign that refers to the stables in which the mythical Argonaut King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years. The cleaning of these stables was accomplished by Hercules, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-19-19-03-2019.jpg
  • A day after Commons Speaker John Bercow announced his refusal to accept Prime Minster Theresa May's third Brexit Meaningful Vote, a Brexiteer holds a sign that refers to the stables in which the mythical Argonaut King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years. The cleaning of these stables was accomplished by Hercules, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-18-19-03-2019.jpg
  • A statue of Atlas is seemingly about to drop the globe onto a person standing below, in the doorway of a City institution.
    atlas_building01-23-03-2015.jpg
  • Fake classical Greek statues stand outside a night club in Nafplio, a former Byzantines, Frank, Venetian, and Ottoman coastal Peloponnese port town of 14,000 on the Argolic Gulf. The walls of this modern building seen near wasteland on the outskirts of town are made to look authentic but result in a false tourist style. There are three pieces of fake art that stand on well-watered grass: One of a nude Greek Goddess, a miniature lion in the middle and nearest the viewer is a naked figure of a man - muscular and classically posed as a heroic and mythical figure. Nafplio was also the first capital of independent Greece which was  destroyed in the 7th Century for its alliance with Sparta. This contemporary landscape is therefore bears no resemblance to its heritage.
    greek_olympiad010-21-10_2003.jpg
  • 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
  • A statue of Atlas is seemingly about to drop the globe onto a person standing below, in the doorway of a City institution.
    atlas_building03-23-03-2015.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..
    greek_olympiad006-20-10_2003.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-21-28-02-2017.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-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-20-28-02-2017.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.
    roman_mural-01-09-1991.jpg
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