Control of the Oracle of Delphi was a key issue in Ancient Greece, and various cities and coalitions fought over it during ...

George met us at our hotel and the three-hour drive to Delphi went swiftly, as he pointed out landmarks from Greek history. There was Marathon, site of a decisive Greek victory over the Persians.

16 COM VIII SOC: Delos and Delphi (Greece) Delos and Delphi (Greece) The Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre informed the Committee of the status of the site of Delos, over which the Bureau ...

The Alcmaeonid clan were one of the wealthiest and most politically important in Athens; a kind of Classical Greek equivalent to the Kennedys in the US. As well as Cleisthenes, who took power in ...

In 1929–1930, commercial waterworks inspired antiquarian ventures in Attica and Macedonia. An American firm faced the Marathon Dam in Pentelic marble and built a copy of the Athenian Treasury of ...

The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual CHAPTER 2 Political and Dramatic Perspectives on Archaic Sculptures: Bacchylides’ Fourth Dithyramb (Ode 18) and the Treasury of the Athenians in Delphi ...