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To: RightWhale
If you ever visit Athens, be sure to take the drive out to the Temple of Poseidon. It's on the coast about an hour's drive out of Athens.

It's dramatically perched atop a high cliff over the ocean and it just drops your jaw to see it from a distance. Up close, it looks kinda beat up, but it isn't exactly a spring chicken.

15 posted on 08/01/2004 11:48:55 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

Went up to Delphi to consult the Oracle, but she was out of town that day. Went to Delos next, but they were all out playing with the dolphins someplace. Maybe they all took retirement. A person could retire there.


18 posted on 08/01/2004 1:43:27 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: Dog Gone

Temple of Poseidon

19 posted on 08/01/2004 3:13:13 PM PDT by cavan
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To: Dog Gone

You talking about the Temple at Sounio? Didn't think too much of it. Actually, most of AThens left me pretty cold -- it's no way as impressive as Roma. Roma's still got it's monuments standing, but then the Romans did build for durability not grace like the Greeks did.


24 posted on 08/01/2004 3:38:04 PM PDT by Cronos (W2K4!)
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

ping


25 posted on 08/01/2004 3:38:30 PM PDT by Cronos (W2K4!)
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