Monday, November 06, 2006

Greece - Athens - National Archeological Museum

I like the occasional museum but I'm not a real beast for them. Kim, on the other hand, needs to be dragged kicking and screaming. Sooo, I have to pick them carefully. This was a good choice as you would expect with a name like the Athens National Archeological Museum...

It's a mock-up, of course, but the front looks like it will deliver.

A floor mosaic, err, stuck on the wall. Him in the middle is Hermes; the phallic (I kid you not) God of travel and other stuff.

Somebody's sarcophagus.

Some pots.

A statue of a horse. It looks like that because it spent some time at the bottom of the sea. Apparently, the Romans used to go round nicking stuff and sending it back to Rome by ships - which occasionally sunk.

The garden inside the museum.

A big brown pot. They have really good pictures on them.

A bird / lion / woman / hat thingy.

A bloke with his willy out.

Zeus - the top God. Here we see him in the middle of chucking a thunderbolt - from when the Gods were a real force to be reckoned with. Dunno what happenned to the thunderbolt. He has his willy out. The Greek Gods had their willies out a lot - except the lady Gods, who had their norks out instead.

Some people sitting around having a chat.

Yo dude, I'm gonna do a 50/50 Grind and den a Kick Flip and den I'm gonna pop a cap in yo ass. Just as soon as I figure out how to get this silly hat off and put on a back-to-front baseball cap. Oh, and do something about this dress.

The sort of helmets worn by bad hombre's.

Aphrodite amuses her nipples.

A fierce-looking lion.

Not sure what this is but I liked the dragons on the top.

This looks like someone fighting a horse - which I thought you really weren't supposed to do.

Apollo - and, yes, he's got his willy out. They must have had a shed-load of fun, these Gods. When the weather was nice, anyway.

Zeus again, up to his thunderbolt-throwing shenanegins - this time keeping his naughty-bits under wraps. Looks like he's doing the 'changing your undies on the beach' dance.

Aphrodite, the Godess of lurve and the two-backed beast. I like this because what's going on is not what appears. Pan, the horney little devil, is trying to get it on with Aphrodite while Eros looks on, and Aphrodite is just about to belt him with a slipper. Pan isn't evil - rather sexually playful. No wonder the Christians took on the image and corrupted it - the guy was having WAY too much fun.

Emperor Augustus. Not all good and not all bad. What's he doing here? The Romans ran the place for a while.

A Roman torso. Apparently, if you wanted a statue of yourself, you went to the statue shop and ordered a body. It's like going to the gym - but without wasting all that time. Then you had your head made up and plonked on the top.

Some gold stuff. This is really old, from the very early days of the ancient Greeks.

Aha, some pointy swords. You wouldn't like one of these up you.

The government's latest anti-binge drinking campaign.

Another big pot with drawings on it.

Part of a wall mural. Not bad for an ordinary house. This one's from Crete.

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