March
17
/ 2023
The seductive scenery along the east coast of Attica in Greece overlooking the Aegean Sea, easily lures one back to an era when mythical gods and goddesses still claimed the land and implored their heroes to build temples for them and their heroines to serve in their sanctuaries as priestesses. During the Mycenaean Bronze Age era, Attica comprised of 12 small communities; Cecropia, Tetrapolis, Epacria, Decelea, Eleusis, Aphidna, Thorikos, Brauron, Kytheros, Sphettus, Cephisia, and Phaleron. Thucydides, a fifth-century BC Athenian general and historian, relates that Theseus, one of the legendary founder kings of Athens, through the process of synoikismos, united Attica’s 12 ancient settlements within Athens’ rule. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"105025","attributes":{"alt":"Primitive Acropolis with the Pelargikon (Pelasgic Wall) and the Old Temple of Athena
