The new sounds of Athens

Athens’s rapid urban and population development inevitably affected the physical remains of the city’s classical past and introduced a new repertoire of sounds. The burble of the Ilissos river was replaced by the lamentations of the funeral processions marching daily to the First Cemetery. The gurgling sound of the waters of the Kallirhoe Fountain was replaced by the noise of Albanian washers cleaning clothes. And the peaks of Mount Lycabettus echoed the dynamite blowing up the rocks and the noise of massive pieces of stone tumbling towards the plain.

Creator: Étienne Rey (1867)
Source: Wikipedia Commons