Τὸ τὰ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν θαυμαστὰ ἰδεῖν τὸ ἐμόν! Τῇ πρωτῇ ἡμέρᾳ περὶ τῆς Ἀκροπόλεως

Sorry for the lack of posts; it's been midterm season here. Maybe at this point I should just admit that I'm not very good at this whole blogging thing. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. About 2 weeks ago, we had a 3-day weekend (I'm not quite sure why). Regardless, a few friends and I took advantage of the opportunity to visit Athens!!! Thankfully, there were no riots (at least that we saw). As you may or may not have been able to tell from the title, I'm going to need to do multiple posts about Athens- we were only there for 48 hours, but I have SO MANY PICTURES.

Okay then, Day 1: THE ACROPOLIS.

The Acropolis as seen from the Areopagus

GAH. IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL. And there are inscriptions EVERYWHERE. Like this one that I took a picture of (as I did with just about all of them):

What does it say? "The city something something the high priest something something the people something something." I'll get around to that eventually.

We had really fantastic weather; it's pretty impressive how big the climate difference was between Rome and Greece. Athens is a cool city, very vibrant, really nice modern metro system. And pretty cheap, too: admission to the Acropolis was 6E a person with the student discount, and I think that's the most we spent on visiting any single place. Also, there are stray animals all over the place. Especially dogs. Big dogs. Here's one just chillin' in front of the Parthenon. No big deal.

Τίς ἐστι ἀγαθὸς παῖς; Τίς ἐστι; Σὺ δὴ, εἶς δή!

And of course the requisite classics-people-in-front-of-the-Parthenon photo.

Καλοί ἐσμεν, ἢ οὐ;

The Areopagus, on top of which St. Paul reportedly preached, along with a plaque with the relevant section from Acts (in Koine, of course):