A virtual tour in Classical Athens (5th century BC)

Ancient Athens 3D (www.ancientathens3d.com) was created back in 2008 as a hobby in order to show the history of Athens and its monuments with the help of 3d modelling.

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A tour in Classical Athens (5th century BC) - 3D reconstruction

The city is presented the way it would look in the years before the defeat in the Peloponnesian War (404 BC). The city of Athens was completely destroyed by the Persian army in the years 480-479 BC.

In the years that followed, the Athenians managed to rebuild their city and by the middle of the 5th century BC, the statesman and general Pericles ordered an extensive construction programme that made Athens the centre of classical Greece. It was the time when the great temples on the Acropolis hill were built (Parthenon, Erechtheion) and many buildings of public administration for the Athenian Democracy.