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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.
Off the tourist trail but not hard to find. One other solitary photographer turned up just after me and we did a sort of dance round it, keeping out of each other's shots.
"Nemea (/ˈniːmiə/; Greek: Νεμέα) is an ancient site in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. Formerly part of the territory of Cleonae in Argolis, it is today situated in the regional unit of Corinthia. The small village of Archaia Nemea (formerly known as 'Koutsoumadi' and then 'Iraklion') is immediately southwest of the archaeological site, while the new town of Nemea lies to the west.
"Here in Greek mythology Heracles overcame the Nemean Lion of the Lady Hera, and here during Antiquity the Nemean Games were played, in three sequence, ending about 235 BCE, celebrated in the eleven Nemean odes of Pindar."
Source: Wikipedia
This image was taken from:
Mitchell, S. Augustus. Mitchell’s Ancient Atlas, Classical and Sacred… Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1873.
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In the foreground are the foundations of the New Temple, middleground the North Stoa, then the upper terrace.
Merbaka (Greek: Μέρμπακα), but officially Agia Trias (Αγία Τρίας, "Holy Trinity"), is a village in the province of Argolis.
The modern church of the Holy Trinity, first built in 1898, was demolished and rebuilt in 1934.
Of more interest is the ancient church of the Panagias built in the twelfth century. Unfortunately, we could not enter.
As a Fleming I read that Merbaka is named after a Flemish monk for William of Moerbeke, a 13th-century Roman Catholic archbishop of Corinth. (Wikipedia).
Tiryns was a hill fort with occupation ranging back seven thousand years, from before the beginning of the Bronze Age. It reached its height of importance between 1400 and 1200 BC, when it became one of the most important centers of the Mycenaean world, and in particular in Argolis. Its most notable features were its palace, its Cyclopean tunnels and especially its walls, which gave the city its Homeric epithet of "mighty walled Tiryns".
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Taken in August 2012 at a tiny natural history museum near Epidavros, Greece.
The Epidauros Natural History Museum, Ligourio, 21052 Argolís, Greece.
Just outside the modern village of Aghia Triada (formerly Merbakas) there is a Byzantine church dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos. The church has many unique features and is considered a fine jewel of the Byzantine Argolid.
This image shows: a detail of the drum, viewed from the south.
More text, here: 5telios.blogspot.com/2011/12/merbakas-byzantine-jewel-in-...
Shot on a Canon G9 in April 2011 and post processed / tagged in GIMP.
Τhe ancient theatre of Epidaurus was designed by Polykleitos in the 4th century BC. As is usual for Greek theatres, 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.
Το θέατρο της Επιδαύρου χτίστηκε από τον Πολύκλειτο το 340 π.Χ.. Από όλα τα αρχαία θέατρα, το θέατρο της Επιδαύρου είναι το ωραιότερο και το καλύτερα διατηρημένο. Η χωρητικότητά του είναι περίπου 15.000 θεατών. Η θαυμάσια ακουστική του, αλλά και η πάρα πολύ καλή κατάσταση στην οποία διατηρείται συντέλεσαν στη δημιουργία του φεστιβάλ Επιδαύρου.