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Surroundings:

Aegae, Vergina theaterRoyal Graves AegaeVergina tomb

Location:

  • Greece, Vergína
  • geo:40.480026,22.321404
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25241

Annotations

The sanctuary of Eukleia at Aigai was erected in the mid-4th century BC. As many hellenistic temples this one was small sanctuary 8 x 4 m.

See:

  1. Chrysoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli; Queenly appearances at Vergina-Aegae. Old and New Epigraphic and Literary Evidence in:  Archaologischer Anzeiger 2000, pp. 387-403

Nearby

Aigeai (Vergina)

An ancient settlement most noted for the discovery, in 1977, of Macedonian royal tombs at the site.

Aegae, Theater

Aegae, Theater

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.


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