Saranda: Ancient Onchesmos: A Short History and Guide
This small, but beautifully illustrated guide book covers the ancient port of Saranda. Twenty kilometres north of the UNESCO site of Butrint, Saranda was a harbour during Roman times and again in the Ottoman era. Saranda's name has changed several times, each time reflecting its Mediterranean-wide connections: Onchesmos comes from Anchises, the Trojan, whose union with Aphrodite on Mt Ida resulted in a son, Aeneas. Dionysius of Halicarnassus called Onchesmos the harbour of Anchises and tells of how the Trojans dedicated a temple to Aphrodite there. Archaeological interest began in the port in 1913, during the second Balkan war, undertaken to…
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- ISBN: 978-99943-943-6-4
- EAN: 9789994394364
- Produktnummer: 34389178
- Verlag: Butrint Found
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 62 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B20.8 cm x D0.5 cm 249 g
- Gewicht: 249
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