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.

Prehistoric Crete

Scythia

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

National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Prehistoric and ancient Africa

 

* The map of ancient Egypt has been posted in "Prehistoric Egypt" (Feb. 9, 2011).

Ancient Greek cities in Asia

  

  
Taprobane is the ancient Greek name for Sri Lanka.



There is a river Phasis in prehistoric Colchis (near Caucasus) and a river Phasis in Taprobane. According to Nonnos (Dionysiaka 13, 223), the Cretans had built a colony in Colchis. Diodorus (5, 42 and 46) writes that in the island Pachaea near India there were Cretan priests from the time of Zeus. Ptolemy (Geography 7, 2, 25) mentions a city Tharra in Thailand. But this is a Cretan name.

The last three maps are based on Ptolemy's coordinates.

Prehistoric Asia Minor

 

Electra, the Strategis
(from a Greek vase)

Prehistoric Italy

 

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)

Ancient Greek cities

Equal distances and straight lines

In this map of NE Peloponnesus, Argos is the center of two concentric circles of radii 22 and 75 KMC (kilomegalithic cubits). We observe that the most important prehistoric cities around Argos are in equal distances from it.

If we take 150 KMC (2x 75) as a radius, we'll find that Aegira, Kynaitha, Sparta (not shown here), the temple of Aphaea in Aegina, Megara and Pagai are approximately on this circle.


Straight lines (approximately):

1. Argos - Mycenae - Korinthos
2. Aegeira - Sikyon - Lechaion - Korinthos - Keghreae
3. Megara - Argos - pyramis at Hellenikon - Tegea
4. Epidauros - Midea - Orchomenos

Also,

1. Sparta = Argos, Pylos, Kyparissia (150 KMC)
2. Delphi = Athens, Aphaea (Aegina), Olympia (100 sq. r. 7 KMC)
3. Sounion = Athens (Parthenon), Aegina (Aphaea) (π^4 KMC)
4. Argos = Athens, Delphi (210 = 7 x 30 KMC)
5. Eleusis = Athens (Parthenon), Megara = Argos - Mycenae (10 (sq. r. 2 +1) KMC)
6. Heraion = Argos, Thebae (100 KMC)
7. Constantinopolis, the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, is π^7 KMC away from Rome and 400π away from Athens. The ratio is π^6/400 or about sq. r. 2 +1.

These are only a few examples to show that the ancient Greek cities were not built by chance.