Metron Ariston

159 posts - The length of Parthenon.

Ancient Thessaly and Macedonia

From the books, "Prehistoric Greece" (1999) ISBN: 9607823079, and "Klaudiou Ptolemaeou - Geographike Hyphegesis" (2001) ISBN: 9607931491.

*Most cities are prehistoric, but some of them have changed names many times.

Ancient Phoenike and Palaestine

                      



Prehistoric and ancient Cyprus

Lykaon

The great statue of Despoina in Lykosoura

From left to right: Artemis, Demeter, Despoina and the Titan Anytos.

National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Representation of the statue

According to Pausanias (8, 37.3), the statues were carved in one piece of stone (a monolith) which was found in the temple of Despoina in the Arcadian city Lykosoura afer a dream. The dimensions are 8.40 m (width) x 5.90 m (height), and the height of the statues is 3.78 m. Therefore, the ratio width : height is the square root of 2. The height (5.90 m) is equal to 13 MC.

Map of ancient Attica

Map of ancient Boeotia

Prehistoric Crete

Dionysos

Dionysos on a  panther - mosaic from Pella

     Athanasios G. Angelopoulos, "Prehistoric colonies of the Greeks"  (1999 - Vol. 2, p. 13).

    The new color map was posted on 15 June 2012 - see also "Argonautica".

Scythia

The great Eleusinian relief
Demeter, Triptolemos, and Kore (Persephone)

National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Prehistoric Europe

Wall painting from Thera - "The voyage"

Prehistoric Italy

 

Teotihuacan

Prehistoric Egypt

The first inhabitants of Egypt were the Pelasgians from Argos and, later, from other areas of Greece, who arrived there before the Cataclysm (9600 BC). One of the oldest cities founded near the beginning of the Nile Delta was Memphis, built by Epaphos, the "son" of Io (Greek Ιώ) from Argos, for his wife Memphis. Memphis is about 20 km south of Cairo.

According to Plato, Sais - a city in the Delta - had been built by the Athenians in 8600 BC, a thousand years after the war with the Atlantians (9600 BC). Heliopolis (Cairo) had been built by Aktis (= Ray), a "son" of Helios (= Sun - Diodorus 4,57). Diodorus informs us that the Egyptian priests of his time had explained to him that the god Helios had ruled Egypt 23,000 years before Alexander the Great. In my books I have shown for the first time (since 1986) that Helios was a Pelasgian king-god from Peloponnesus. The Greek state of Elia in western Peloponnesus was named after him. Heliopolis is also mentioned in Exodus (A' 11) "...καί 'Ων, ή έστιν Ηλιούπολις"  (...and On, that is Heliopolis).

Epaphos married Memphis and became the father of Libya. Her name was given to the country around Egypt, that is to the continent Africa. Then Libya became the mother of Belos and Agenor from Poseidon. Belos - a very important king-god of Egypt - was the father of Aegyptos and Danaos, and Agenor (who went to Phoenike) the father of Kadmos, Phoenics, Kilics and Europe. The country in the Nile valley was named Aegyptos after the "son" of Belos. (* The sons and daughters mentioned in Greek mythology are descentants).

In those days - before and after the Cataclysm - the river was called Aegyptos (Homer). The Cretans, who built many cities in this area, called the country Aeria (= Airy) because Aeria was an older name for Crete. Around 6000 BC some other people of Semitic origin arrived in Egypt from Arabia and the population changed later.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aeshylos Prometheus 570-590
Herodotos B' 59, 98, 156
Apollodoros B' 1
Plutarchos On Osiris and Isis
Pausanias B' 16.1, C' 18.3
Suda (in Ιώ)