Delos

The island of Delos (, ), isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece. The excavations in the...

In this article: Apollo, Dionysus, Artemis, Isis, French School at Athens, Delos Archaeological Museum, Mykonos, and Athens

Delos Archaeological Museum () is a museum on the island of Delos, near Mykonos in the South Aegean, Greece. It is noted for its extensive collection of statues unearthed in the surrounding area of the ancient site, which has been declared a...

In this article: Delos Archaeological Museum, Athens, Wild Boar, Heracles, Dionysos, French School at Athens, and Silver

The Delos Synagogue dates from between 150 and 128 BC, or earlier and is located on the island of Delos. It is understood to be Samaritan. It is one of the oldest synagogue s in the world. The synagogue was discovered in 1912 by a team...

...rather than answers the question. As Miles explains, the little we know of Heius suggests that he had been in business on the island of Delos, a major commercial centre of the Mediterranean and capital of the ancient slave trade. It is...

In this article: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Verres, Rome, Enna, Sicily, Mark Antony, Polykleitos, and Coercion

Olen (Ὠlamdaήnu) was a legendary early poet from Lycia who went to Delos, where his hymns celebrating the first handmaidens of Apollo in the island of the god's birth and other "ancient hymns" were still part of the cult at Delos in the time...

In this article: Apollo, Hera, Eileithyia, Pausanias, Herodotus, Ares, Hebe, and Hesiod

...antiquity, Delia (Gr ) were festivals and games celebrated at the great celebratory gathering, or panegyris in the island of Delos, the centre of an amphictyony to which the Cyclades and the neighboring Ionians on the coasts belonged.

In this article: Athens, Theseus, Peloponnesian War, Solon, Demetrius Phalereus, and Plutarch

...1300, as primary reference sources. Asia can be seen at the top of the map, with Europe to the left, Africa to the right and the island Delos at the centre of the world, in accordance with ancient Greek traditions. Mr and Mrs Pleasant...

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...before the buses arrive. The classical sites of Mycenae also can be done on a driving trip from Athens. Don't miss the island of Delos, considered a holy sanctuary for a thousand years before Olympian Greek mythology declared it the...

In this article: Apollo, Athens, Greece, Hawaii, E mail, and Artemis

The result is an invigorating and congenial tour through the mainland and the islands. Most of the major sites are covered Athens, Delos, Delphi, Olympia, Knossos and Mycenae with bracing excursions to places like Poliochni on Lemnos,...

In this article: Athens, Delphi, Parthenon, Louvre, Greece, Greek War of Independence, and Homer

...be recognized as the earliest regional ritual center in the Aegean," he said. This could put it on a par with the sacred islet of Delos _ also in the Cyclades _ revered from early antiquity until Christian times as the birthplace of Apollo,...

In this article: Colin Renfrew, Cyclades, Keros, Crete, Greece, Cambridge University, Henry Moore, and Pablo Picasso