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Rudsār Villa, Iran, 2018

Photo: Peyman Amirghiasvand, Deed Studio

IRANIAN ARCHITECTURE

Iranian architecture

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The facade of Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, a masterpiece of the Iranian architecture, built between 1602 – 1619 during the Safavid dynasty

(Photo: Stock Photos from Athikhom Saengchai/Shutterstock)

مطبخ خانه ای از برای دل های گرفته و تنگ شده، فزهنگ و تاریخ خاک خرده.

Iranian traditional kitchen.

Ancient Home in Kashan Iran

The Holy Bethlehem Church of New Julfa or Bedkhem Church; in Isfahan, Iran

Akhavan House/ Kashan/ Iran

Photography: abolfazl sadr

I looked at how they depicted Olympus in that last episode. You know, trip to Olympus. Percy's biggest whoa! in the entire book. Then I went back to reread description from the TLT book and:

From the top of the clouds rose the decapitated peak of a mountain, its summit covered with snow. Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces-a city of mansions-all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires. Roads wound crazily up to the peak, where the largest palace gleamed against the snow. Precariously perched gardens bloomed with olive trees and rosebushes. I could make out an open-air market filled with colorful tents, a stone amphitheater built on one side of the mountain, a hippodrome and a coliseum on the other. It was an Ancient Greek city, except it wasn’t in ruins. It was new, and clean, and colorful, the way Athens must’ve looked twenty-five hundred years ago.

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My trip through Olympus was a daze. I passed some giggling wood nymphs who threw olives at me from their garden. Hawkers in the market offered to sell me ambrosia-on-a-stick, and a new shield, and a genuine glitter-weave replica of the Golden Fleece, as seen on Hephaestus-TV. The nine muses were tuning their instruments for a concert in the park while a small crowd gathered-satyrs and naiads and a bunch of goodlooking teenagers who might’ve been minor gods and goddesses. Nobody seemed worried about an impending civil war. In fact, everybody seemed in a festive mood. Several of them turned to watch me pass, and whispered to themselves.

Well...

Does this look like a colorful Ancient Greek city to you. This is not even Ancient Greek architecture.

It's on screen for exactly 6 seconds before we cut to Zeus' domain, which looks like a boring platform with a number of similar-looking stone-cut thrones. That's it. That's the entire "daze" of the show.

The entire place is empty too. There's no one but Percy. There are no muses, or minor gods, or demigods, or literally anyone there.

They drained the fun out of Mount goddamn Olympus.

P. S. I'm just reminding you that the TLT movie Riordan hates with such burning passion made MO resemble Athenian Parthenon. Like it's still gloomy as hell but it looks Greek:

the tomb of esther and mordechai in hamadan, iran. the site is believed by iranian jews and christians to house the bodies of the aformentioned biblical figures, and is an important site of pilgrimage for both. the earliest known account of it was made by the jewish traveller benjamin of tudela in the 11th century.

the interior has been renovated so many times throughout the centuries that the original hebrew inscriptions on the walls have been lost in several paint-overs. what we're left with today is practically gibberish.

Yazd, Iran

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Architecture of Isfahan

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Arch of Ctesiphon (Taq Kasra), ruins of the old Sassanid capital, 3rd-6th C. CE. Photo date: 1932. "The second largest single-span vault of unreinforced brickwork in the world after Gavmishan Bridge (Gavmishan Bridge was also Sassanid)."

"Damn this world, damn this time, damn this fate, That uncivilized Arabs have come to Make me a Muslim Where are your valiant warriors and priests Where are your hunting parties and your feats? Where is that warlike mien and where are those Great armies that destroyed our county's foes? Count Iran as a ruin, as the lair Of lions and leopards. Look now and despair"

-Ferdowsi

Beautiful architecture in IRAN

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