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Name Location Era Image Argyrocastrou Square fountain: Rhodes (city) Knights period: Abdulhamid Pasha fountain: Chios (town) Ottoman period: Bembo fountain
The Klepsydra [1] of the Acropolis of Athens is a natural spring on the north-west slope of the Acropolis hill, [2] near the intersection of the Peripatos and the Panathenaic Way. It had been in use as a source of water since prehistoric times but sometime in the fifth century BCE the site was developed with several new structures built.
The term nymphaeum was also applied to the fountains of water in the atrium of the Christian basilica, which according to Eusebius were symbols of purification. Phiale is an equivalent Greek term. A nymphaeum for al fresco summer dining featuring artificial grottoes with waterflows was designed by Bartolomeo Ammanati (1550–1553), and was ...
Nymphaeum (Olympia) (Latin, Ancient Greek: νυμφαῖον), etymologically "home of the nymphs" or water goddesses, at ancient Olympia was the official name of a water-distribution structure constructed in the mid-2nd century at that site to provide water to the masses who attended the Olympic Games in July and August.
The Fountain of Peirene. Pirene or Peirene (Greek: Πειρήνη) is the name of a fountain or spring in Greek mythology, physically located in Corinth. [1] It was said to be a favored watering-hole of Pegasus, sacred to the Muses. Poets would travel there to drink and receive inspiration.
The British Museum has lent for the first time in 250 years an ancient Greek water vase, the Meidias hydria, to the Acropolis Museum in Athens for an exhibition which begins this week and runs ...
The Fountain of Arethusa (Italian: Fonte Aretusa, Ancient Greek: Ἀρέθουσα [1]) is a natural spring on the island of Ortygia in the historical centre of the city of Syracuse in Sicily. According to Greek mythology , this freshwater fountain is the place where the nymph Arethusa , the patron figure of ancient Syracuse, returned to Earth ...
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