Up the Acropolis
My daughter Mairi and I visited Athens in early November and of course one of the highlights was a visit to the Acropolis. Although it was November the weather was very pleasant and the site was quite busy. I won't bore you with all the facts about the Acropolis as they are easily found on Wikipedia, but suffice it to say that this hill has been fortified and occupied since the 6th millennium BC and there have been other temples built and destroyed before the existing Parthenon was constructed under Pericles (460-430 BC). Now the Parthenon, the main temple on the Acropolis and dedicated to the goddess Athena, is under constant renovation and much of it is covered in scaffolding. We came onto the Acropolis through the lesser used southern gate and could immediately see the Odeon built by Herodes Atticus in AD 161. This was rebuilt in 1950 and is used every year for the Athens Festival. We walked up the hill until we came to the entrance gate of the temple mound, the Propylaea, f