Wednesday 31 August 2022
Athens is awash with ancient wonders, from theaters and temples to the mighty Acropolis and Greek mythology can be closely tied to many of these sites. These are four famous tales of Hellenic...
Tuesday 27 August 2019
Religious Center of Thrace As we mentioned, the Mysteries of the Cabeiri are much older than the ones of the Orphics. The cult, however, was also widespread in mainland Greece, and one of its...
Hospital Center of Greece Epidaurus is in proportion the most equipped Medical Center the world has ever seen; with sacred temples, areas for practicing medical science, a gymnasium for the...
Athena’s Children Boarding School for Girls In Brauron the shape of the sanctuary is roughly the same as that of the Acropolis, however, it is facing south. At this point, we should mention that...
Southernmost Cape of Attica Sounio is the southernmost headland of Attica, 38 km from Athens, where on the formed hill of 60 meters which was formed by the leveling of the area the Temple of...
The Manger of God It is the place where the predatory Harpies withdrew, which are winged spirits daughters of Thaumantas and an Oceanid Electra and belong to the Pre-Olympian divine generation....
Sports Center of Greece As we observed when we mentioned Delphi, with the descend of the Dorians in the 12th century B.C. the reorganizing of the basic shrines within the Greek region begins,...
East Gate of the Gods Delos is located in the middle of an island complex whose colonists are basically Ionian, who at least since 700 B.C. organized common celebrations in Delos.When it became...
Religious Center of Macedonia This shrine was destroyed by the Aetolian army in 219 B.C. but was rebuilt by the Macedonians because it is their eminent holy site. It was here that Phillip II...
Religious Center of Epirus Dodoni (Greek: Δωδώνη) is a village and a municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Dodona (Doric Greek: Δωδώνα, Dōdṓna, Ionic and Attic Greek:...
Monday 26 August 2019
Ritual Center of Greece Eleusis was one of the most important religious centers in Greece. It was founded, according to the archaeological findings, in 1800 B.C. and is located in the Thracian...
Route in Spacetime The Acropolis of Athens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was populated since the Neolithic era and during the Mycenean times was fortified with walls that protected the...
Administrative and Religious Center of Greece Delphi, the "Navel of the Earth", the "Common Hearth of all the Greeks", was the most sacred site of Ancient Greece. The Antiquities curator B....
West Gate of the Mortal The Necromateion (or Nekromateion) of Ephyra is as important as Delphi and Delos because it is one of the basic elements of the religion of the Greeks. Namely, it is a...
Monday 27 August 2018
From Mythology to History The route Delphi - Necromanteion - Olympus - Delhi is roughly 450 kilometers long. The surface of the Orphic circle centered around Metropolis (Ω) is roughly 25.500...
Thursday 7 June 2018
One of the Architectural problems of the Ancient world, that concerned me as a student of Architecture in Rome, was the Arc. Namely this Architectural solution, that for my professors was a Roman...