The Antiquities of Athens, volume 2, Stuart & Revett (1787)

The first volume of The Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Architects, was published in 1762, eight years after the authors had returned to London. This delay allowed Julien-David Leroy to beat them to press with his Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce (1758).

The second volume, dedicated to the monuments of the Acropolis: the Parthenon, the Erechtheion and the Propylaea, appeared in 1787

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Archaeology of the City of Athens

In 1994, the National Foundation of Research organised a series of twelve tutorials on the historic continuity and archaeology of Athens:

• The City of Athens in the Prehistoric Times
• Dark ages – Classic period
• Topographic Issues of the Acropolis
• The city of Athens during the Hellenistic Period
• The Roman Agora: the first commercial centre of Athens
• The Topography of Athens during Byzantine and post-Byzantine period
• The coinages of Athens
• Morosini in Athens
• Athens in the 19th century: From regional town of the Ottoman Empire to capital of the Kingdom of Greece
• Athens in the 19th century: The neighbourhood of Metaxourgeion
• Medieval and Recent History: A New Consciousness about the City of Athens at the End of the 19th Century
• The Preservable Neo-classical Buildings of Athens

click here for the Archaeology of the City of Athens website

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The Museum of the City of Athens

The museum building on 5-7 I. Paparrigopoulou St., Klafthmonos Square is one of the very few preserved Athenian buildings dated to the early years of the establishment of the modern Greek state. Also known as The Old Palace it was used as a dwelling for the first royal couple of Greece between 1836 and 1843.

The painting above by Jacques Carrey shows the Marquis de Nointel and his entourage in Athens in 1674 (housed in the Athos G. Tsoutsos Hall).

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