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Lycian Landscape
Lycian landscape as found between Apollonia and Aperlae. Photo provided by Peter Sommer Travels, republished with permission.
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Illyria - Exploring Ancient Albania
Albania is located at the crossroads of the eastern Adriatic and was known as Illyria and Epirus throughout the Classical era. It played a strategic role in ancient times and was a point of contact between Illyrian, Greek, and Roman civilizations...
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Nymphaeum at Apollonia, Albania
The rectangular basin of the Nymphaeum at Apollonia in Albania, fed by the underground water sources. 3rd century BCE. It is the biggest and best-preserved monument of Apollonia covering an area of 1,500 square metres.
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Agora of Apollonia, Albania
The north-western edge of the Agora of Apollonia in Albania with the Bouleterion, the Triumphal Arch and the Odeon.
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Large Stoa of Apollonia, Albania
The large Stoa of Apollonia in Albania was built in the 4th century BCE. It is the best-preserved monument from the Classical period in the Agora and was used up to the 2nd century CE. It has a rectangular plan measuring 72.2m by 10.5m, divided...
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Cyrene
Cyrene (modern-day Shahhat, Libya) was a vital cultural center and port of trade in North Africa founded in 631 BCE by Greek colonists from the island of Thera. The city is best known as the birthplace of the philosopher Aristippus of Cyrene...
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Argula von Grumbach
Argula von Grumbach (née von Stauff, l. 1490 to c. 1564) was a Bavarian theologian, writer, and reformer, who became a controversial figure after her 1523 letter To the University of Ingolstadt protesting the arrest of a young scholar for...
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Anaximenes
Anaximenes of Miletus (l. c. 546 BCE) was a younger contemporary of Anaximander and generally regarded as his student. Known as the Third Philosopher of the Milesian School after Thales (l. c. 585 BCE) and Anaximander (l. c. 610 - c. 546...
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Silphium
Silphium (also known as laser) was an uncultivated plant that grew in Cyrene, North Africa (modern Shahhat, Libya) and became the cash crop of the region of Cyrenaica between c. 631 BCE and the 1st century CE when, according to Pliny the...
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Corcyra
Corcyra (modern Corfu and also known as Kerkyra) located in the Ionian sea is one of the northern most Greek islands and was an important polis or city-state in the Archaic and Classical periods. Possessing a significant naval fleet and controlling...