Modern Athens built from the ruins of ancient Athens, 1800. View from the south-east showing the Temple of Olympian Zeus and its three columns in the foreground, the Arch of Hadrian, and the Acropolis and Parthenon on the hill. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823.

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