Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0058Description
A sepia tone stereograph. Image is of a man sitting on a stone wall on a hill overlooking a large village/small city with numerous brick buildings. In the distance are a group of columns from a ruin. Stamped on the upper right corner is "S766". Below the image "(15)-9288-Lysikrates monument, Temple of Zeus and Stadion, E.S.E. from Acropolis, Athens. Copyright Underwood & Underwood." is printed. To the left of the image "European Publishers Underwood & Underwood" is printed. To the right of the image "Underwood & Underwood New York & Ottawa, Kas. Works, Arlington, N.J." is printed.
On th reverse the following is printed - 9288. We are standing on the wall at the east end of the Acropolis, looking a little south of east over the southeatern end fo the city. The great part of modern Athens is down at our left, extending northwards behind us. The Theatre of Dionysos is around at our right, down below the steep side of the Acropolis.
Immediately below us is a small, round building, long popularly known as the Lantern of Demosthenes, but now as the Lysicrates Monument. The narrow street runs straight ahead until it reaches the boulevard named after Amalia, the queen of Otto the VBvarian. Across the boulevard is an arch made by Hadrian in a wall which separated the new quarter, whic he laid out with great magnificence, from the older Athens. On the front towards us is cut in large letters: "This is Athens, the old city of Theseus;" on the other side "This is the city of Hadrian and not of Theseus.'
Beyond the gate we see a braod platform on which still stands at the southeast corner thirteen columns, with their architraves, of the temple of Olympian Zeus. Some of the oldest traditions of te Greek world are attached to that enormous foundation. It is said that Deukalion and Pyrrha, after the flood, re-peopled the earth by throwing over their shoulders stones which were transformed into men and women, with whose help they built here the most ancient temple of the world. * * *
At the left is teh Stadion, laid out between two hills.
From Greece through the Stereoscope by Rufus B. Richardson, Ph. D. copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
In blue ink "Carbon County Public Library Rawlins Wyoming" is stampped.Collection
Photograph Collection