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Archaeologist Xeni Arapogianni was leading an excavation in the region in 2007, when the remains of a wall became visible. What lay underneath was much more than she had anticipated: the entire city of ancient Thouria had been hiding there all along. Findings so far have included a temple and an asclepion, an ancient healing centre akin to a hospital, which had not been recorded in any ancient or modern source – a completely new and unexpected discovery at the time.
...In his 10-book traveller’s account, Description of Greece, Greek geographer Pausanias, who lived in the 2nd Century AD, noted that the old town of Thouria was built on a hill and then moved to a valley. He also mentioned the city could be Anthea, a city featured in Homer’s Iliad. Curiously, Strabo, another Greek geographer and historian from the 1st Century BC, also wrote that Thouria could be a city mentioned in the Iliad – not Anthea, but Aepeia. In the epic 8th-Century BC poem, both cities were given by Agamemnon as atonements to Achilles.
The re-discovery of a long-lost Greek city
That's pretty cool.
...In his 10-book traveller’s account, Description of Greece, Greek geographer Pausanias, who lived in the 2nd Century AD, noted that the old town of Thouria was built on a hill and then moved to a valley. He also mentioned the city could be Anthea, a city featured in Homer’s Iliad. Curiously, Strabo, another Greek geographer and historian from the 1st Century BC, also wrote that Thouria could be a city mentioned in the Iliad – not Anthea, but Aepeia. In the epic 8th-Century BC poem, both cities were given by Agamemnon as atonements to Achilles.
The re-discovery of a long-lost Greek city
That's pretty cool.
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