Delos: Birthplace of Apollo. All You Need to Know About the Island's Myth, Legend and its Gods

Author : Jill Dudley

Paperback

Published : Monday 3 April 2017

ISBN : 9780993489068

Price : €3.60

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Description

For anyone interested in Greek antiquity this booklet is as it says on the back cover: All you need to know about the island's myths, legends and its gods.

In this booklet Jill Dudley speaks of the light that seems to envelop Delos, the smallest of all the Cycladic islands. She describes Homer's account of the god Apollo's birth which took place there, and how in antiquity it became a major centre of pilgrimage. Today it still attracts many thousands of tourists because of its excavations and its history. She takes the reader on a tour of the island, and explains the reason for the Athenian's annual sacred embassy to Delos.

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