Metic

• Phaistos

  Phaistos (Φαιστός, also transliterated as Faestos, Phaestos, Faistos) is the second largest Minoan palace of Crete after Knossos. The Bronze Age palace is located on a low hill in the Messara plain south of Heraklion. The site was inhabited since…

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• Palaikastro Minoan Settlement at Rousolakos

  Παλαίκαστρο (Palaikastro, sometimes also transliterated as Palekastro) Minoan town unearthed at the Rousolakos location near the modern town of Palaikastro. The settlement is strategically located on the east shore of Crete, in Chiona harbor a few kilometers north of the…

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• Treasury of Atreus

  The tholos tomb at Mycenae known as “Treasury of Atreus”, built between 1350 and 1250 BCE, is the largest, best preserved, and one of the latest built in the Bronze Age. It is also known as “Tomb of Agamemnon”. Its…

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• Greek Mythology

  Intorduction The ancient Greek spiritual beliefs, religion, and oral tradition are all reflected and formulated through rich myths and legends that besides entertainment provided an articulation of Greek culture’s moral fiber. Taken as a whole, what we call “mythology” today…

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• Mycenae Archaeological Site

  Mycenae (Greek: Μυκήνες) is one of the most important archaeological sites of Greece. The fortified citadel is perched over the fertile plain of Argolis near the seashore in the northeast Peloponnese.  Mycenae is the largest and most important center of the…

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• Olympia Archaeological Site

  Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία) is one of the most influential ancient Greek sanctuaries. It has been renown since antiquity as the founder and host of the Olympic Games which took place every four years, starting in 776 BCE.  Olympia archaeological site is…

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• Rhamnous: Temple of Nemesis

  The temple of Nemesis in Rhamnous was renown even before the fortified settlement acquired importance in the 5th c. BCE. Nemesis was the goddess that prescribed happiness and misery to mortals, and a zealous punisher of “hubris” (ύβρις)–the disrespectful arrogance…

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• Rhamnous

  Rhamnous (Greek: Ραμνούς; Also transliterated as: Ramnous, or Rhamnus, or Rhamnounda, or Rhamnuntus) is an ancient Greek fortified town, located on the Attica coast, about 55 kilometers northeast from Athens. It was named for the local prickly bush called ramnos and…

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• Sounion: Temple of Athena

  The sanctuary of Athena Sounias (nominative singular case: Αθηνά Σουνιάς; genitive singular case: Ναός της Αθηνάς Σουνιάδος; Often transliterated as: Sounia, Sounias, Souniados) is built on a low hill in Sounion, a short distance from the better preserved and more…

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• Temple of Poseidon at Sounion

  Archaeological evidence indicates that Sounion was a sacred area as far back as the Bronze Age, but the temple visible in our day was built in the middle of the 5th century BCE (between 444 and 440 BCE). It was part of…

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