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Library of Hadrian - Athens - Greece 48 images Created 1 Aug 2021

Images in this gallery are from the Library of Hadrian in the city of Athens, capital of Greece and one of the oldest cities in the world.
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  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_001.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_002.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_003.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of unfluted Corinthian columns on the northern half of the west façade beside the Propylon of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_004.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_005.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_006.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_007.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_008.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_009.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_010.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_011.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the partly restored Propylon or monumental entrance of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Propylon consisted of four Corinthian columns and flanking it was an imposing Pentelic marble façade adorned on each wing by seven unfluted Corinthian columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_012.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of unfluted Corinthian columns on the northern half of the west façade beside the Propylon of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_013.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of unfluted Corinthian columns on the northern half of the west façade beside the Propylon of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_014.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of unfluted Corinthian columns on the northern half of the west façade beside the Propylon of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_015.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of unfluted Corinthian columns on the northern half of the west façade beside the Propylon of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_016.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View from inside the Library of Hadrian complex of the rear of the west wing façade. Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library was built in 131 AD the complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_017.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View from inside the Library of Hadrian complex of the rear of the west wing façade. Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library was built in 131 AD the complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_018.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the ruins of the inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens.  Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which the four standing columns survive. The courtyard was surrounded by porticos with a total of 100 columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_019.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the ruins of the inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens.  Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which the four standing columns survive. The courtyard was surrounded by porticos with a total of 100 columns. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_020.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the once inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens.  Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_021.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the once inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens.  Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which the four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_022.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_023.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_024.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_025.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_026.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_027.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_028.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_029.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_030.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_031.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_032.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which the four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_033.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which the four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_034.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which the four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_035.tif
  • Athens. Greece View of four standing columns which stand on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which the four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_036.tif
  • Athens. Greece. An archway stands on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_037.tif
  • Athens. Greece. An archway stands on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_038.tif
  • Athens. Greece. An archway stands on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_039.tif
  • Athens. Greece. An archway stands on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. Occupying the courtyard from 425 AD was a monumental Tetraconch Christian church which was then replaced by a 7th century church of which four standing columns survive. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_040.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of floor mosaics dating from the 5th century AD Tetraconch Christian church built on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens.  The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_041.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of floor mosaics dating from the 5th century AD Tetraconch Christian church built on the original inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens.  The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_042.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the one (North) of the two Auditoria’s which were on the situated on the eastern side of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Auditoria were small rooms used for lectures and text reading. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_043.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the one (North) of the two Auditoria’s which were on the situated on the eastern side of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Auditoria were small rooms used for lectures and text reading. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_044.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the one (North) of the two Auditoria’s which were on the situated on the eastern side of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s Library built in 131 AD in Athens. The Auditoria were small rooms used for lectures and text reading. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_045.tif
  • Athens. Greece. View of the eastern side of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens. In picture are the remains of a large central two storey building (Bibliostasio) where books (papyrus scrolls) were kept. On either side were two Auditoria’s which were small rooms used for lectures and text reading. The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_046.tif
  • Athens. Greece. Church foundation remains near the southern wall of the Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens.  The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_047.tif
  • Athens. Greece. Ruins of some of the 100 columns from the inner peristyled courtyard atrium of Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lavish Library built in 131 AD in Athens.  The library complex consisted of a vast library, a large courtyard with a garden and central pool, mosaics floors, numerous rooms and a facade adorned with Corinthian columns.
    Greece_Athens_Hadrians_Library_048.tif