A jumble of ruins. Relatively unprotected. Everything just lying around.
This is the mountain where they quarried all the marble. It is named Mycale. At least they could tumble the pieces downhill.
Theatre in Priene. I am sitting in the VIP seats. They are quite nice. It is next to the alter where they would sacrifice young women to Dionysus. None were available at the time
Dan, passing judgement on the play. It must have been “Democracy”
Doreen in the VIP seats. Notice how we are allowed to clamber all over the ancient ruins.
Coming across the Temple of Athena
SP with the Temple of Athena in the background. Look at all the Ionic columns just jumbled all about! They look like gears.
The Temple of Anthena. This temple was the model on which all subsequent Ionic temples were based. Alexander the Great stayed in this town in 334 BC.
Doreen, for scale, amongst the tumbled down Ionic columns
Ionic capital
Ionic detail
Doreen with Capital
Doreen on base of column, for scale
Reassmbled Ionic columns
The Ionic Clumns from the Temple of Athena, with Mycale in the background
More tumbled down Ionic columns
The flat plains below used to be The Agean Sea. The River Maeander filled it all in with silt.
Greek writing. I think it said something like “Post no bills”
There were very few people at this site when we visited. It is mostly controlled by lizards.
The last remnant of the Temple of Apollo. The rest was carted off to Berlin. Between the Germans and the Brits, all the good stuff was taken away from this site and stored in The British Museum or the Pergamon Museum.
