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Surroundings:

Aegae, Vergina theaterRoyal Graves AegaeVergina tomb

Location:

  • Greece, Vergína
  • geo:40.480091,22.321873
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -600~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

An ancient settlement most noted for the discovery, in 1977, of Macedonian royal tombs at the site. Its name derives from Greek word aiga (goat) and means "the city of goats - the land with many goats".

See:

  1. http://www.aigai.gr/en/explore/broader/area/of/Vergina
  2. Chrysoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli: Ancient Macedonia in the Light of Recent Archaeological Evidence. The Case of Vergina, Aureus : volume dedicated to professor Evangelos K. Chryssos 2014, pp. 689-698
  3. Athanasia Kyriakou et Alexandros Tourtas,  After destruction: Taking care of remains in the Sanctuary of Eukleia at Aegae (Vergina), In Université Catholique de Louvain/Centre d’ Etude des Mondes Antiques/Institut des Civilisations, Arts et Lettres, International Round table: Destruction. Archaeological, philological and historical perspectives, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 24-26 November 2011., Louvain-la-neuve: Presses Universiteires de Louvain, 2013, pp. 299-318

Nearby

Vergina [Aigai], Eucleia Temple

The temple of Eukleia.

Assassination of the Philip II (336 BC)

Philip was murdered in October 336 BC, at Aegae, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Macedon. While the king was entering unprotected into the town's theatre, he was killed by Pausanias of Orestis, one of his seven bodyguards.

Aegae, Theater

Aegae, Theater


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