Aliki Chapple
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Aliki Chapple
@commonmugwort.bsky.social
Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast.
Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics. Mostly in Athens.
(@amaenad from Twitter but more chill)

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Eye on the past.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Ruins of Athens: No filter
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December 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
A Cats of Athens/Ruins of Athens crossover.
#Caturday
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December 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Ruins of Athens: facing the past.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Up Cemetery Road.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Old Athens (Gkyzi): Stairway
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December 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Dean Spanley.

Why: deeply touching, funny, and mystical film about family. Involves meals accompanied by alcohol. Also, dogs. Has snow on the poster.
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Birds on a wire.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Sunday in the park with cars.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I made no attempt to enter the buildings, and little to photograph through what openings there were (unlike me, I know), because I found the whole compound more interesting than any details I could capture.
Thread ends.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Here’s the view towards Vassilissis Sofias. The modern building is outside the complex. It might be part of NIMTS, or maybe not; there’s a patchwork of institutions in the area.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Not everything in the hospital complex dates to a hundred years ago and more; basketball wasn’t much of a thing in Greece before the 1980s.
November 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Here is an ailing citrus tree by a widow.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography #abandonedPlaces
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
And 3. Our family’s famous stuffing, adapted from an Italian-American recipe by Greeks.
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Thing 2: Apple slab pie
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Thing 1: Skillet cornbread.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Different buildings have decayed differently, perhaps because of how they were built, how long they stayed in use, or their placement within the compound.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography #AbandonedPlaces
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This one must have been an administrative building; I can’t imagine patients were treated here.
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
There’s something serene about it, the undressed stone, the space, the contrast to the modern buildings around it, almost as though I’d stepped through some portal into a different city.
#Athens #AbandonedPlaces
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The courtyard on the other side of that wooden gate.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I’ve often walked past the derelict military hospital complex on Deinokratous, and tried to take photographs through the gap in the massive wooden door, but the other day I found the main gate open, and the guards placidly undisturbed by my “I like old buildings” and my wandering around.
A thread.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Ruins of Athens: Lemon courtyard.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Old Athens: School
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November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM