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The MUST Listen Podcast before Traveling to Greece

Classical Wisdom Speaks

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The Athenians Used the Sanctuary in the Athens to Celebrate the Military Victory

Delphi was the center of the Greek world. Everybody who mattered would have seen those monuments or understand what was significant so buttons or another Greeks at the state. And also how the Athenians would use this building to make statements about their political life and their own achievements, because we believe it was constructed after the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. Then there is another monument, which is very impressive engineering feature of the of the sanctuary retaining wall built in the 6th century BC with a very interesting polygonal mesundary. But what's even more interesting for me are the around 800 inscriptions, which are engraved on the blocks of this wall, and descriptions which were engraved from 3rd

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