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Surroundings:

Brauron templeBrauron sacred wellstoa of BravronBrauron roomsBrauron bridgethe Vravrona tower

Location:

  • Greece, Poriá
  • geo:37.925709,23.993719
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 4xx / unknown

Class:

  • Site of historic event
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=69819

Annotations

The small temple-like building is the supposed Tomb of Iphigeneia. According Eurypides And mortals will in future times celebrate Artemis Tauropolos with hymns. And establish this law: whenever the people keep the festival, let a sword be held  to a man's throat and draw out blood, in atonement for your sacrifice, so that the goddess may have her honors, and holiness is revered. You, Iphigenia, must be key-holder for this goddess on the hallowed stairs of Brauron, and will die there and be buried1.

See:

  1. John J. Coulton,, BRAURON (Vraona) Attica, Greece, in: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.
  2. Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Robert Potter. New York. Random House. 1938
  3. Brian Clark, BRAURON. The Sacred Sanctuary of Artemis- https://www.astrosynthesis.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Sanctuary-of-Artemis-Brauron-Brian-Clark.pdf

References

  1. Euripides, IT, 1455 f


Nearby

Sacred well, Brauron

Sacred well, Brauron

Stoa of Brauron

Ancient Greek architecture for public use.


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