As ever, whenever I’m in a new city I take pictures of anything that strikes me as interesting and then I go and research it later. This post rounds up all those random statues I photographed around Athens. The first is that of Yannis Makriyannis. Located not far from the southeast entrance of the Acropolis, though tucked away a little bit in the corner of a small grassy area, this statue is of one of the men who fought for Greek independence in the 1820s. He also is known at least in Greece for his memoirs which were notable for being written in Demotic Greek, the standard spoken language of modern Greece. It translates as language of the people.
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