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looking out along the entrance passage
This modest pyramid in Argolis is the best preserved of the few visible in Greece. With its internal chamber and entrance passage, it's hard to avoid the obvious interpretation of it as a tomb. It is mentioned by the traveller and writer Pausanias (2nd century AD) as being associated with legends of some 3000 years previously. However, many modern scholars date it to merely 4th century BC.
Epidaurus (Modern Greek: Ἐπίδαυρος) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. The modern town Epidavros (Επίδαυρος), part of the prefecture of Argolis, was built near the ancient site.
Epidaurus was independent of Argos and not included in Argolis until the time of the Romans. With its supporting territory, it formed the small territory called Epidauria. Reputed to be the birthplace of Apollo's son Asclepius, the healer, Epidaurus was known for his sanctuary situated about five miles (8 km) from the town, as well as its theater, which is once again in use today. The cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus is attested in the 6th century BC, when the older hill-top sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas was no longer spacious enough.
There were two other similarly named Greek cities. One Epidaurus, colony in Illyria and another Epidaurus, Limera in Lakonia.
The asclepieion at Epidaurus was the most celebrated healing center of the Classical world, the place where ill people went in the hope of being cured. To find out the right cure for their ailments, they spent a night in the enkoimitiria, a big sleeping hall. In their dreams, the god himself would advise them what they had to do to regain their health. Found in the sanctuary, there was a guest house for 160 guestrooms. There are also mineral springs in the vicinity which may have been used in healing.
Asclepius, the most important healer god of antiquity, brought prosperity to the sanctuary, which in the 4th and 3rd century BC embarked on an ambitious building program for enlarging and reconstruction of monumental buildings. Fame and prosperity continued throughout the Hellenistic period. In 87 BC the sanctuary was looted by the Roman general Sulla, and in 67 BC, it was plundered by pirates. In the 2nd century AD, the sanctuary enjoyed a new upsurge under the Romans, but in AD 395 the Goths raided the sanctuary.
Even after the introduction of Christianity and the silencing of the oracles, the sanctuary at Epidauros was still known as late as the mid 5th century, although as a Christian healing center.
Theatre
The prosperity brought by the Asklepieion enabled Epidauros to construct civic monuments too: the huge theatre that delighted Pausanias for its symmetry and beauty, which is used once again for dramatic performances, the ceremonial Hestiatoreion (banqueting hall), baths and a palaestra. The theater was designed by Polykleitos the Younger in the 4th century BC. The original 34 rows were extended in Roman times by another 21 rows. As is usual for Greek theatres (and as opposed to Roman ones), the view on a lush landscape behind the skênê is an integral part of the theatre itself and is not to be obscured. It seats up to 15,000 people.
The theatre is marveled for its exceptional acoustics, which permit almost perfect intelligibility of unamplified spoken word from the proscenium or skênê to all 15,000 spectators, regardless of their seating. Famously, tour guides have their groups scattered in the stands and show them how they can easily hear the sound of a match struck at center-stage. A 2007 study by Nico F. Declercq and Cindy Dekeyser of the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that the astonishing acoustic properties are either the result of an accident or the product of advanced design: The rows of limestone seats filter out low-frequency sounds, such as the murmur of the crowd, and amplify/reflect high-frequency sounds from the stage.
ARGOLIS, Hermione. Circa 360-320/10 BC. Triobol (Silver, 2.85 g 7). Head of Demeter Chthonia to left wearing grain wreath, pendant earring and pearl necklace. Rev. Monogram of ΕΡ within wreath of grain. BCD Peloponnesos 1287 (this coin). BMC 1. Grandjean, Monnayage I, 1A (D1/R2, but cited by Grandjean as being R7, this coin). Very rare. Very attractively toned, probably the finest existing triobol of Hermione. Good extremely fine.
From the BCD Collection, LHS 96, 8 May 2006, 1287 and ex Sotheby, 22 April 1970, 173.
This was the best Hermione hemidrachm BCD owned - that means it is about the best one will ever find!
NOMOS2, 93
Mycenae was an important city in ancient times, centrally located in the Greek landscape of Argolis 25 km southwest of Corinth, and once the main political and cultural center of the Mycenaean civilization named after Mycenae.
The impressive royal fortress (the "acropolis") of Mycenae was inhabited only by the ruling class: working and merchants lived well beyond the walls. The fortress is surrounded by a 900 m long and on average 6 m thick wall, built of giant ("cyclopean") stone blocks of various sizes.
Redelijk op tijd weg naar Mycenae, het centrum van de Mycenaean wereld, een stad gebouwd tegen een heuvel. Toegang via de Leeuwenpoort en het museum bekenen, de grafcircel, het Tolos graf, de werkplaatsen van de artiesten en de noordpoort. Net buiten de site de schatkamer van Atreus bekeken. Daarna naar door naar Argos waar een prachtig theater uitgehakt uit de berg bleek te bestaan. Vroeger 20.000 zitplaatsen. Ook de oude Agora bekeken. Verder naar Tiryns, een acropolis met een bestaan vanaf 2700 BC. Dikke, hoge muren beschermden de inwoners. In Nafplion gelunched, rondgelopen, het trouwtje van de vakantie gescoord, de Agios Giorgios kathedraal bekeken en genoten van het pittoreske stadje. Daarna omhooggereden naar het Palamidi bastion met prachtig uitzicht. Boodschappen gedaan om in het appartement salade Nicoise te maken.
Redelijk op tijd weg naar Mycenae, het centrum van de Mycenaean wereld, een stad gebouwd tegen een heuvel. Toegang via de Leeuwenpoort en het museum bekenen, de grafcircel, het Tolos graf, de werkplaatsen van de artiesten en de noordpoort. Net buiten de site de schatkamer van Atreus bekeken. Daarna naar door naar Argos waar een prachtig theater uitgehakt uit de berg bleek te bestaan. Vroeger 20.000 zitplaatsen. Ook de oude Agora bekeken. Verder naar Tiryns, een acropolis met een bestaan vanaf 2700 BC. Dikke, hoge muren beschermden de inwoners. In Nafplion gelunched, rondgelopen, het trouwtje van de vakantie gescoord, de Agios Giorgios kathedraal bekeken en genoten van het pittoreske stadje. Daarna omhooggereden naar het Palamidi bastion met prachtig uitzicht. Boodschappen gedaan om in het appartement salade Nicoise te maken.
..of the father of a close friend.
Alea, a half abandoned village between Tripolis and Argos / Greece
SIlver, ca. 500-475 B.C.E., 2.36 grams
Archaizing Pegasus right, lotus bud below / rough quadripartite incuse square.
A superb example of this rare issue of coinage.
NGSA6, 45
Museum
Archäologische Stätte Mykene.
Mykene auf den Peloponnes / GRIECHENLAND /
Anthropomorphe Figur, zwischen 1250 und 1180 v. Chr.
Hydra
A monster of the Lernean marshes, in Argolis. It had nine heads, and Hercules was sent to kill it. As soon as he struck off one of its heads, two shot up in its place.
MS M.459 fol. 16r, Morgan Library
Attica-Islands of the Aegean
Attica-Islands of the Aegean, Epidauros, The Argolis
Drachm (Silver, 4.70 g 1), c. 250/245. Laureate head of Apollo Maleatas to right, his hair falling down the back of his neck. Rev. Asklepios seated left on backless throne, holding long scepter with his left hand and extending his right over the head of a snake that coils to left before him; under the throne, hound lying to right; below seat, ; to right, . BCD 1240. BMC 7 (same dies). Jameson 2107 (this coin). Requier Series III, D1/R2. SNG Lockett 2508 (same dies). Very rare. Beautifully struck, nicely toned and very attractive. A few minor marks, otherwise, good extremely fine.
From the Star collection, acquired privately from E. J. Waddell, from the BCD and Jameson collections, and ex Hirsch XXXIV, 5 May 1914, 452.
LHS102, 238