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Looking S.W. over Theatre of Dionysos where Greek dramas were given - Athens – Antique Wall Art

Looking S.W. over Theatre of Dionysos where Greek dramas were given - Athens, New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1907. — historic photograph
Looking S.W. over Theatre of Dionysos where Greek dramas were given - Athens, New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1907.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: Looking S.W. over Theatre of Dionysos where Greek dramas were given - Athens, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Seen from the southwest, this stereograph shows the theater of Dionysos on the south slope of the Acropolis, where the stone seating curves down toward the stage ruins. The theater was the home of the City Dionysia, the festival in honor of the god Dionysos, and it was here that many plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were first staged. Underwood & Underwood issued cards like this one around 1907 for home stereoscope viewers, so the two slightly offset images combine into a single view with real depth, a popular way for American families to visit classical sites they would never see in person.

Created / publishedNew York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1907.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH89851 U.S. Copyright Office. No. (19)-9290.
SubjectsAmphitheaters--Greece--Athens--1900-1910. Theaters--Greece--Athens--1900-1910. Archaeological sites--Greece--Athens--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,308 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184190

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