Athens Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Urban sculpture === [[File:The Old Parliament House - National Historical Museum - on March 1, 2019.jpg|thumb|The [[Old Parliament House, Athens|Old Parliament House]], now home to the National History Museum. View from [[Stadiou Street]].]] Across the city numerous statues or busts are to be found. Apart from the neoclassicals by [[Leonidas Drosis]] at the Academy of Athens (Plato, Socrates, Apollo and Athena), others in notable categories include the statue of [[Theseus]] by [[Georgios Fytalis]] at Thiseion; depictions of philhellenes such as [[Lord Byron]], [[George Canning]], and [[William Ewart Gladstone|William Gladstone]]; the equestrian statue of [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]] by [[Lazaros Sochos]] in front of the Old Parliament; statues of [[Ioannis Kapodistrias]], [[Rigas Feraios]] and [[Adamantios Korais]] at the University; of [[Evangelos Zappas]] and [[Konstantinos Zappas]] at the Zappeion; [[Ioannis Varvakis]] at the National Garden; the" Woodbreaker" by [[Dimitrios Filippotis]]; the equestrian statue of [[Alexandros Papagos]] in the Papagou district; and various busts of fighters of Greek independence at the [[Pedion tou Areos]]. A significant landmark is also the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page