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The Foothills of Mt. Chortiatis, Greece
The landscape from the top of Mt. Chortiatis. In the background, the hinterland of the mountainous Chalcidice emerges. In antiquity, the mountain was called Cissus, which means ivy. The locals could have chosen the mountain's name either...
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A Pond in Samothrace, Greece
A beautiful pond emerges from the waterfall deriving from Mt. Saos, Samothrace.
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Pausanias' locations in his Description of Greece
Map based on Description of Greece by Pausanias. The map shows which parts of Greece each book in the work describes.
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Map of Archaic Greece
A map of the political structure of Greece in the Archaic Age (ca. 750 - 490 BC).
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Map of Classical Greece
A map showing classical Greece and the Aegaean islands.
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Pausanias' Description of Greece Map
Map epicting locations described in Pausanias' Description of Greece, as found in the version translated and with a commentary by J. G. Frazer. Photograph by the British Library.
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The Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece
Temple of the local fertility goddess Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, c. 500 BCE.
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Dion Polygonal Building, Greece
The Polygonal Building in Dion (Greece), located at the intersection of the main cardo and the decumanus (east-west road), is thought to have been a palaestra due to a mosaic depicting wrestlers that was found in one of the rooms.
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Pausanias' Description of Greece
Manuscript of Pausanias' Description of Greece at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, Italy, dating from 1485.
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The Beginnings of Historic Greece
The Beginnings of Historic Greece. 700 - 600 B.C.
