The Kerameikos Archeological site and museum in the morning. The site had the Dyplon Gate, where the old wall was built by Themistocles. Panathenic processions used to start there and led to the Ancient Agora of Acropolis.
Then went to the Acropolis of Anthem in the evening for the views of Parthenon, Temple of Athena Nike, Erechtheion.
- Word of the day: Entasis is a slight convex curve in the shaft of a column, introduced to correct the visual illusion of concavity produced by a straight shaft. In architecture, entasis is the application of a convex curve to a surface for aesthetic purposes, or increasing strength. Its best-known use is in certain orders of Classical columns that diminish in a very gentle curve, rather than in a straight line as they narrow going upward.
- The best thing I learned today: the Parthenon has no straight lines to look straight and congruent. The middle columns are widest/bulging in the middle while inclined a bit inwards (helped unexpectedly stabilize during earthquakes), the corner columns are a bit wider than the middle ones to create an appearance of the same size, otherwise the corner columns would have looked thinner; the stairs are also a bit curved.
