Rhodes Lindos

Lindos is situated on the eastern side of the island, about 55 klms away from the city of Rhodes. A huge rock, the amount rises 166m above sea level. Left and right of the huge rocks were two ports, one bigger than the other. The triangular area of this huge rock of Lindians venerable old patron goddess Athena, the Lindian. The temple of the goddess was impressive as he was surrounded by a number of buildings worthywitness not only the inhabitants of piety, but also a great asset to the old city.

The wild beauty of the surrounding rocks and the medieval castle, the guards jealously the splendor of ancient monuments behind its thick walls and towers, leaving the viewer in awe. Today is the Acropolis of Lindos is no longer surrounded by the sacred grove, which has kept the old Lindians with such care and dedication. Aglohartos In fact, Athena Priest, at the height of their faith in3. and fourth centuries saw the proud care and effort taken to preserve the ancient trees on several inscriptions. The worship of a goddess on this point is rocky from the realm of dark early history. First, the Achaeans and Dorians later identified this pre-selection with the Greek goddess Athena. Pindar tells how this ancient temple was founded by the Heliades, the direct descendants of the sun god, and explains the reason for the absence of an altar. For Athena Lindiannot to sacrifice to the flames burning. Their offerings were cereals, fruit, candy, liquids and other items that were the product of the earth and what does not require burning. These deals are back in Pindar as "offers without fire" and traces its origins to HeHades known. According to legend Heliades to offer in the race of the first victims of Athena, quickly climbed the cliff to forget to bring the fire with it. This was the control by the HeliadesWithout fire source. The myth of the Heliades is not the myth that it is only until the foundation of the temple. The myth of Danaus, who was the father of the Greek race, is also connected to the temple. fled in this myth as Danaos and his daughters from Eygpt on their way to the Peloponnese, Danaos held in Lindos. During his stay on the island, he founded the temple and set up the first statue of the goddess. This statue was a simple piece ofuntreated wood, the symbol of a form of worship, which is given as "xoan" (which is the worship of a framework of wood). The first temple dedicated to the goddess was in the eighth century BC, built, and it was in this century that the first projection of anthropomorphic gods. This statue was small and made of wood. These archaic temple survived until the Cleoboulos. In the 6th century Cleoboulos built a new temple and decorated the statue of the goddessTrophies from his many victories. The ruins that survive today from 6th Century temple. This was destroyed in 342 BC by a great fire. On the site of the destroyed temple Lindians built a new temple and the old wooden statue of the deity was replaced by another. This new gold-plated statue had a wooden body and a marble head, hands and feet were. The history of the temple and a description of the offerings in great detail by the sentence in the Chronicle TimahidasLindos. E 'was struck not only by the number of votive offerings, which are outlined, and the number of statues that adorned the temple, the basis of which survive today only.

A bit 'under the temple at the entrance of the Acropolis in a large stoa of the Doric order, built in 200 BC, while the Temple of Psithirou, the god of prophecy, was built in 200 AD. In the Middle Ages the Byzantines fortified ancient Acropolis to build an impregnableCastle and the Church of St. John. The successors of the Byzantines, the Knights built the castle, the castle more closed environment and the Palace of the brace. You can reach the Acropolis, along the southern side of the hill. As soon as you walk through the main entrance is a staircase that leads to a small space. On the right side of the rock cliffs of Pythourito Timoharou carved in 180 BC, we see an imposing monumental structure consists of aExedra circular faces a large base. This base was the base of an altar or pedestal of a statue. To see the stern of a trireme along the side of the Exedra. The exemption is 4.46me its height is 5.50 m. Many details can be seen helping with the reconstruction of the technical details of ancient shipbuilding. In the same area, there are the remains of the Byzantine cisterns and the remains of an archaic stairs. A more recent flight of about 80Stairs lead to an arched entrance and administrative medieval building that was home to the guardian of the castle of the Knights'. Go past the entrance you can see the medieval remains of the Byzantine church of San Giovanni and the Doric Stoa, which was restored and the columns were erected in situ. The Stoa is a form of P greek and measures 90 meters long, 8.9 wide and 6.20 m in height. There were 42 Doric columns on the facade of Doric columns and 8along the sides. The columns were polygonal third of their height, while the other two thirds of the columns are fluted. At the heart of this great Hellenistic structure, there was a staircase of 36 steps, built on top of the stairs Cleoboulos elders who led the Propylaea. The Propylaea was built in the fifth century BC and is a copy of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.

At the highest point of the plateau triangular Lindians built a templededicated to their patron goddess. The length of this temple is 22.40me the width is 7.20m. A temple in Doric style jump remained intact and only the parts of its walls have been made in several columns to their original position again.

The archaeological zone is not limited to the area of the Acropolis, but also extends to include the whole area. carved from the western slope of the hill is the ancient theater. The orchestra, the platform of the altar and 27Seats survive. Besides the theater, the church of St. Stephan. The large rocks that surround the church are the remains of the wall that enclosed the old city gym. The excavations, carried out by Danish archaeologists in 1904 not only showed a large number of inscriptions and artifacts, but slabs of marble, which was recorded in the history of the inscription of the Temple of Athena Lindos and under the floor tiles of an old church Byzantine. This is nowFamous Chronicle of Lindos, which now houses the Museum of Copenhagen.

The foundation remains of another temple to the goddess Athena is in the position of Vigils on the northern slopes of the hill and overlooking the great harbor. This temple is the temple known as "Boukopion", whose name derives from Boukopia victims who were held in honor of Athena derivatives. The Dorians built this small temple, from 9 or 10 century BC, making them suitable for the goddess' s offerslaughtered victims, which was the custom prescribed.

During the Hellenistic period, a large circular structure of large roughly hewn stones, was built on a small peninsula, which has built Palaistras Bay, the ancient port of Lindos included. The outer perimeter of the monument is 28.42m, while its height is 2.80. Locals call it the tomb of Cleoboulos. The main entrance to the interior is gained on the south-west. A narrow corridor leads to a smallGrave room. On the southwest side of the room, dug into the rocky ground is the grave of a man who built this monument in his honor. This structure was also used later to a church dedicated to St. Emiliano.