acastus Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/acastus Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Calydon in History & Today http://travelsfinders.com/calydon-in-history-today.html http://travelsfinders.com/calydon-in-history-today.html#respond Sun, 28 Jan 2018 19:51:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244818 Despite being the setting of a well-known myth, little is known of Calydon until the time of its abandonment. Signs of occupation from the eleventh century bc suggest that it grew up round the archaic sanctuary of Artemis Laphria, an important religious centre. Briefly fought over in the early fourth century bc, in the Classical and Hellenistic periods its two temples – one of Artemis (housing a gold-and-ivory statue), the other of Apollo – were augmented by treasuries and stoas. In the third century bc, Calydon and its newly fortified acropolis were enclosed by walls, 4 km (2^ miles) in

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