Paraporti, the ancient spring of Ares, and cave of dragon slain by Cadmus (S.E.), Thebes, Greece – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Paraporti, the ancient spring of Ares, and cave of dragon slain by Cadmus (S.E.), Thebes, Greece, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Paraporti, the ancient spring of Ares, and cave of dragon slain by Cadmus (S.E.), Thebes, Greece
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The subject here is the Paraporti spring and cave at Thebes in Greece, which the caption links to the spring of Ares and to the dragon that Cadmus slew. In Greek legend, that dragon guarded the spring, and Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, killed it before settling the city, so the site carried a mythic weight for visitors. This stereograph was issued by Underwood & Underwood, a firm that sold paired-image cards for home stereoscope viewers. Such cards gave viewers around 1903 a sense of standing at distant ruins, and this one records a landscape that tied modern travelers to classical stories.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 87. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Caves--Greece; Springs--Greece--1903; Photog. I.; Antiquities--Greece--1903; Greece--Thebes--1903; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,398 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140252 |
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