HISTORY
OF THE CITY OF ATHENS From the 19th to the 20th century
The theft of the Parthenon marbles.
The end of Turkish rule.
King Otto in Athens.
The first private and public buildings. Conservation of Byzantine churches.
The arrival in Athens of electric power, the telephone, the automobile, the tram, the electric train, the airplane. New buildings, new churches, a new City Hall, new market, the Anafiotika, Plaka and Monasteraki quarters.
Step-by-step, the authentic history of Athens, from the mid-19th century to the dawn of the third millennium.
48 min.
The Parthenon With maps, drawings, reconstructions.
The story of the creation of the glory, then the destruction and drama of the most illustrious monument ever to grace the face of the earth in the passage of the centuries. The period of the “ancient youth”, the Age of Pericles, the Period of the Panathenian Procession, the Period of the sculpture of the metopes, friezes, pediment sculptures, the goddess Athena, and all the masterpieces of bas-relief wrought by the masterful hands of Pheidias, Iktinos and Kallicrates represented in relief
The monument of Acropolis With maps, drawings, reconstructions.
Learn the history and marvel at the vivid representations of the unique monuments of the sacred rock of the Acropolis of Athens.
The Parthenon, the Erectheion, the Karyatids, the Propylaia, the Art Gallery, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Temple of Pallas Athena, the bronze works, the Shrine of Artemis, the Temple of Rome and Augustus, Athena the Defender…
The period of classical acme, the great enemies, the catastrophes, the looting and vandalism of the most sacred monuments of antiquity.
56 min.
The Ancient Agora,
The Romean agora With maps, drawings, reconstructions.
The ancient Agora. The center of public life and worshipful activities of the Athenians. Its first construction, its destruction by the Persians, its reconstruction, its golden age in the period of Pericles. The temple of Hephaistus, the portico of Zeus the Liberator, the Registry, the Parliament, the Rotonda, the Inner Stoa, the temple of Ares, the Odeon of Agrippas, the Gymnasium, the Stoa of Attalus, and all the remarkable structures of the Agora where Socrates lived, taught, was condemned and died.
56 min.
THE THEATER OF DIONYSUS
With maps, drawings, reconstructions.
From the 6th century BC when the worship of Dionysus was introduced in Athens by the tyrant Peisistratus, the history of the legendary theater of the ancient world is recorded. The theater is represented in its epoque with its seats, its shrine, the altar to the pod, the orchestra, the forestage sculptures, the stage, the storerooms. The great masters of tragedy Aeschelus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes of comedy. The great agricultural mysteries of theater and their "apocryphal" beauty.
56 min.
The Temple of Poseidon SOUNION
With maps, drawings, reconstructions.
The history of the temple
from Ancient Times to the present day. The God Poseidon, the construction of the temple, the male youth statues, the fortress, the Propylon, the Barracks, the citizens' houses, the Naval Shipyard, the shrine of Athena. The manners and customs of that era presented in lively narrative.
63 min
Ancient Olympia
THE HOLY SITE OF ZEUS With maps, drawings, reconstructions.
The history of the legendary site which housed the Olympic Games during the glorious era of classical antiquity.The customs and traditions of the Olympic Games in the land of their birth. The Stadium, the Gallery of the Judges, the Sacred Altis, the Temple of Zeus, the Heraion, the Philippeion, the Prytaneion, the Garden of Treasures, the Register and the Nymphaion of Herodus, the Portico of Echo, the Crypt, and other wonderful debris of an enchanting locale fabled in history.
82 min.
Eleusis
THE SANCUARY OF DEMETRA
With maps, drawings, reconstructions.
Experience the myth and the history... Experience the site of the Eleusinian mysteries with its shrine, Pluto, the Temple of Artemis, the sacrificial pyre, the small and the large Gate, the Sombre Stone...
The entire history of the shrine from the 6th century BC to the Roman period. Descriptions of finds including the courtyard of Peisistratus, the Soloneion, the Kimoneion, the Pericleian and the metaPericleian-Roman shrine. Experience the unique, unrivalled sacred site of Eleusina.
72 min.
Delphi - Mandio
THE TEMPLE OF APOLLON With maps, drawings, reconstructions.
Travel with us, in a time machine, to the most sacred location of the Ancient Hellas.
The shrine of Athena, the Rotonda, the Gymnasium, the Roman Entrance, the Sacred Way, the Athenian Treasure, the Athenian Portico, the Temple of Apollon, the Delphi theatre, the Stadium, the Castalian spring, and other constructions emblematic of the seat of faith of the ancient world.
59 min.
Epidauros
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE ASKLIPIEION With maps, drawings, reconstructions.
Experience the shrine of Asclepius on Epidaurean land! …
Experience the ceremony of worship and the methods of healing all forms of disease which plagued people of the ancient world! The Propylaia, the Basilica, the Thermal Waters, the Aphroditeion, the Baths, the Temple of Asclepius, the Fountain, the Altars, the Vault, the Palaestra, the Gymnasium, the Roman Odeion, the Stadium, the Theatre of Epidaurus and all of the marvellous structures of the shrine of Asclepius.
136 min.
The beauties of Greece
The countless beauties of Greece in a unique film. All of the famous archaeological sites, the world famous monuments, the incomparable natural locations.
A unique spiritual Journey
to the incomparable Byzantine monasteries of the Meteora... with their astonishing ascetics... their customs and believes... their lifestyles. The granite rocks that unite the earth, with the
heavenly spheres!
