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PHOTO CREDITS
- Hellenic Olympic Committee’s photo archive.
- Photos This is Athens, Thomas Gravanis.
- Architectural designs of the Stadium (I. Travlos) from Papanicolaou-Christensen Aristea (2003) The Panathenaic Stadium: Its History Over the Centuries, Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, National Historical Museum, p.22.
Author: Dr Vassiliki Tzachrista, Archaeologist
Translated by Fotini Karamanlaki, Faculty of Philosophy, Athens Kapodistrian University.