Delphi
Also known as Δελφοί
-550
Ancient Greek
landscape
Delphi sits on a steep terrace below the Phaedriades cliffs of Mount Parnassus, a sanctuary the ancient Greeks treated as the navel of the world. From the 8th century BCE it grew into a pan-Hellenic religious center where the Pythia…
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- -373
The third Athena Pronaia temple was rebuilt in limestone after the earthquake of 373 BCE damaged its predecessor.
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- Skyring · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- en:Karl Bötticher (1806–89) · Public domain
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