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Home > Art, Film & Photography > Temples of Apollo: Abae, Temple of Apollo Zoster, Apollo Maleatas, Temple of Apollo Patroos, Delphinion, Temple of Apollo Epicurius
Temples of Apollo: Abae, Temple of Apollo Zoster, Apollo Maleatas, Temple of Apollo Patroos, Delphinion, Temple of Apollo Epicurius

Temples of Apollo: Abae, Temple of Apollo Zoster, Apollo Maleatas, Temple of Apollo Patroos, Delphinion, Temple of Apollo Epicurius


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Chapters: Abae, Temple of Apollo Zoster, Apollo Maleatas, Temple of Apollo Patroos, Delphinion, Temple of Apollo Epicurius. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Temple of Apollo Zoster is a Greek temple, the remains of which are located at Vouliagmeni in Attica, Greece. The Temple was uncovered when children from the Vouliagmeni Orphanage were playing on what is now known as the Astir Beach. The site now lies sunken, at the back of the Beach, and is surrounded by a lawn and hedges. The Temple is almost at sea level, and so is often flooded outside the summer months. The inscriptions found on the ruins confirm that the site is the Temple of Apollo Zoster. Excavations were undertaken by the archaeologists K Kourouniotes and M Pittidis during 1926-7. This confirmed references in the ancient literary sources: Pausanias mentions that this was the location of the most important sanctuary of the deme of Aixnides Halai (Greek: ), in other words, the Saltfields of Aixn. This ancient deme included the modern areas of Voula and Vouliagmeni. The Temple sits on the middle tongue of a three-tongued promontory which was once famously known in antiquity as Cape Zoster. Herodotus writes that, after the battle of Salamis, the Persians mistook the rocks of the headland for Greek ships. Pausanias believed that in this location Leto, who was pregnant by Zeus, loosened her gilt belt, or zoster, as she was being chased by an angry Hera. Leto believed that she was about to give birth to the twins known as Apollo and Artemis. The Temple was founded in the sixth century BC, the Archaic Period. It is of rectangular construction, 10.8m by 6.00m, and has a sekos and an adyton. The floor of the Temple "is a unique and fine construction of big, rectangular slabs." The sekos...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2487684


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158239238
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 50 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158239238
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Abae, Temple of Apollo Zoster, Apollo Maleatas, Temple of Apollo Patroos, Delphinion, Temple of Apollo Epicurius
  • Width: 229 mm


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