Tower of the Winds
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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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
The Tower.
A detail of the Tower's frieze.
A similar tower with the same name in Sevastopol
Art
Main category: Tower of the Winds in art
Étienne Rey. Voyage Pittoresque en Grèce et dans le Levant fait en 1843-1844
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
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).
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
Main category: Reliefs of the Tower of the Winds
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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