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Athens International Airport – Eleftherios Venizelos |
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Villas For Sale in Lefkada |
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NARCO CONSTRUCTION was formed in order to design and built high standard villas in the area of Lefkada. |
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| Choregic Monument of Lysikrates |
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You will find it in the heart of Plaka, on the east side of the Sacred Rock. It is preserved in excellent condition and consists of a circular building in the shape of a peripteral tholos supported by six Corinthian columns, resting on a square podium of poros stone. The entablature is of Ionian order bearing an inscription of the choregos (financier) and a frieze with relief representations of incidents from the adventurous life of Dionysus. The conical roof used to be crowned by the choregic tripod, awarded to the choregos of the tragedy that triumphed in the Greater (or City) Dionysia (drama contest). Monuments of this kind were quite common in Athens during the Classical Era. According to Pausanias, the so-called Street of the Tripods that began in the Agora and went winding around the north and the east side of the Acropolis ending up in the Theatre of Dionysus, was studded with similar monuments shaped like small temples. Those monuments were a way of showing the choregic tripods - given as drama contest awards - to the world. The excavations around the Acropolis revealed the remnants of many such constructions but the choregic monument of Lysicrates is the only one that remains almost intact. We also know the exact date of its erection thanks to the mention of Evainetos in the choregic inscription, ruling archon of Athens from 334 to 333 B.C. During the Turkish domination the monument was incorporated in a Capuchin monastery, which helped preserve it to this day. There has been some restoration work done in 1845 and in 1892, but it was very limited.
Temple of Zeus Olympios | Hadrian's Library | Theater of Dionysus | Aeropagus (Areios Pagos) | Philopappos Monument | Hadrian's Arch | Sanctuary of Poseidon at Sounion | Roman Agora | Odeion of Herodes Atticus | Tower of the Winds | Pnyx | Church of Agios (Saint) Demetrios (Thessalonica) | White Tower | Rotunda of Thessalonica |
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