Watercolor of Ancient Athens

[the-golem]

I just ran across this watercolor rendering of Ancient Athens. I'm not sure of the scale, but as a point of reference, the Parthenon (which sits atop the Acropolis) measures roughly 100 ft by 230 ft.

Anywho: Ancient Athens

[Ghostman]

Wow that's awesome detail. Have some rep for bringing this to my attention.

[Clercon]

The picture is actually from a book called "The Ancient City" by Peter Connolly and Hazel Dodge. The book covers both Ancient Athens and Rome and includes a lot of nice drawings by Connolly depicting how life and housing was in those two cities. I can really recommend the book for anyone interested in cities or ancient Greece, Rome.

You can get it here.

[Larb]

That's pretty awesome. While we're linking maps of ancient cities, here's one for you all:

http://www.euratlas.net/Roma/rome100.htm

I'm very fond of Roman history myself! That site also has some nice historical maps of europe in sequence every century.