Tower of the Winds
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a Roman tower in Athens that once housed an early weather vane, large clepsydra, and multiple sundials to function as an early clocktower | |||||
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描繪內容 | 阿涅摩伊 | ||||
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位置 | 羅馬阿哥拉, 雅典, 亞該亞 | ||||
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English: The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble tower on the Roman agora in Athens.
Ελληνικά: Οι Αέρηδες ή το Ωρολόγιο του Κυρρήστου είναι ένα κτίριο στη ρωμαϊκή αγορά της Αθήνας
Photographs
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The Tower.
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A detail of the Tower's frieze.
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A similar tower with the same name in Sevastopol
Art
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Étienne Rey. Voyage Pittoresque en Grèce et dans le Levant fait en 1843-1844
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Elévation de la Tour des Vents — James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794
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Edward Dodwell, In the interior of the Tower of the Winds—or hydraulic Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes—in Plaka (Athens, Greece): Rite of the Dance of the Dervishes (1805).
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Illustration from A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806 (published in 1820) / Viaggio nella Grecia fatto negli anni 1804, 1805 e 1806, by Simone Pomardi.
Personifcations of winds / Winds in the region of Athens
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Apeliotes, the east wind; brings a gradual gentle rain, and is a great friend to Vegetation —— James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794
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Boreas, the north wind; is cold, fierce and stormy —— James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794
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Eurus, the south east wind; which at Athens is sultry and gloomy, and brings much rain —— James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794
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Kaikias or Caecias, the north-east wind, is cloudy, wet and cold —— James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794
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Libs, the south-west wind —— James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794
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Notus, the south wind; is sultry and very wet — James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794
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Sciron, the north-west wind; the dryest which blows in Athens — James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794
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Zephyrus, the west wind; in the summer brings very sultry weather, but in the spring is pleasant, warm, and favorable — James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794