After touring around, we headed for the New Acropolis Museum where I sat, in awe, in front of the West Pediment -- what remains of it and its plastered reconstructed bits (to help people visualize what the heck is going on).
There they were: Athena and Poseidon, right in the middle, depicted in their battle for the patronship of this ancient city.
Lianne was around, looking at the friezes. The museum's top floor is placed parallel with the Acropolis and designed to display all of the Parthenon's features as they would be seen on the actual monument. Does this make any sense?
It was amazing. I had written my final paper for my museum studies class on the Elgin Marbles and repatriation, so to see the Museum's marbles and how they placed replicas of the missing marbles in their rightful location on the museum walls was OUT OF THIS WORLD! (Kind of like when I saw the actual Modigliani painting at the MET a few years ago after studying him for a year.)
Before even entering the museum, there was a glass floor where the public could see the ancient ruins during the Roman occupation --- right underneath of the Museum! Anyone who knows me will be surprised to read that I actually walked over the glass floor... God, I hate glass floors.
There was a glass fence inthe middle of this terrace which revealed ancient drains and wells... I've seen my fair share of drains this past month, considering I WORKED ON EXCAVATING A DAMN DRAIN. Loads of worldwide coins are dropped into them or right next to them...
I closed my eyes, made a wish, flipped my euro coin and it landed right into the wishing well.
I'm hoping my wish will come true --- I wished for the same thing back in Pylos on my last night there... If you wish for the same thing more than once, doesn't that mean I have more of a chance of it coming true, eh???
I think so eh... RIGHT?!
There they were: Athena and Poseidon, right in the middle, depicted in their battle for the patronship of this ancient city.
Lianne was around, looking at the friezes. The museum's top floor is placed parallel with the Acropolis and designed to display all of the Parthenon's features as they would be seen on the actual monument. Does this make any sense?
It was amazing. I had written my final paper for my museum studies class on the Elgin Marbles and repatriation, so to see the Museum's marbles and how they placed replicas of the missing marbles in their rightful location on the museum walls was OUT OF THIS WORLD! (Kind of like when I saw the actual Modigliani painting at the MET a few years ago after studying him for a year.)
Before even entering the museum, there was a glass floor where the public could see the ancient ruins during the Roman occupation --- right underneath of the Museum! Anyone who knows me will be surprised to read that I actually walked over the glass floor... God, I hate glass floors.
There was a glass fence inthe middle of this terrace which revealed ancient drains and wells... I've seen my fair share of drains this past month, considering I WORKED ON EXCAVATING A DAMN DRAIN. Loads of worldwide coins are dropped into them or right next to them...
I closed my eyes, made a wish, flipped my euro coin and it landed right into the wishing well.
I'm hoping my wish will come true --- I wished for the same thing back in Pylos on my last night there... If you wish for the same thing more than once, doesn't that mean I have more of a chance of it coming true, eh???
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