"Σπήλαιον αναπνοήν έχον ες την θάλασσαν": το σπήλαιο του Ευριπίδη στη Σαλαμίνα
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Λώλος, Γιάννος Γ.
Lolos, Yannos G.
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Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Φιλοσοφική Σχολή. Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας
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Δωδώνη: Τεύχος Πρώτο: επιστημονική επετηρίδα του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων; Τόμ. 26 (1997)
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"A Cave with a mouth towards the sea": the Cave of Euripides in Salamis. Part I: Excavations in 1994-1997: a summary. Part II: The results of the 1997 campaign (Τίτλος περίληψης)
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This paper, in two parts, is a presentation of the main results of the systematic excavation, conducted by a team under the direction of Y. G. Lolos in 1994-1997, at a cave (with a total length of ca. 47 m.) near the small Bay of Peristeria on the south coast of the island of Salamis in the Saronic Gulf. To judge from the numerous finds retrieved from the disturbed layers inside the cave, the place appears to have been used for various purposes in the course of five (5) different periods, i.e. in the Late Neolithic, Late Mycenaean, Classical and Roman period, and also in the period of Frankish rule of Greece. The cave at Peristeria can be safely identified with Euripides' famous den, where the poet used to retire and compose his dramas, on the basis of descriptions preserved in the texts of four ancient writers (Philochoros, Satyros, the Anonymous biographer of Euripides and Aulus Gellius, a Roman writer who visited Euripides' Cave in the 2nd century A.D.), and also on the evidence of an Attic black-glazed cup-skyphos of the late 5th century B.C., found in Chamber IV C in 1996, bearing the name of Euripides, apparently a dedication to the poet scratched upside-down on the cup in the Roman period. In that period, the cave is very likely to have emerged as a «tourist shrine», a place of worship in honour of the great tragedian. In the last section of the paper, the argument is advanced that Hippolytos, one of Euripides' best dramas (of 428 B.C.) may well have been conceived in the Cave at Peristeria, situated between landmarks of the mythical cycle of Hippolytos, below Mount Akamas and directly opposite Troizen and Methana, and with a fine view towards the Saronic sea.
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Νότια Σαλαμίνα, Ανασκαφές, Όρμος Περιστέρια (νοτιότερο άκρο της Σαλαμίνας)
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Σαλαμίνα (Νησί, Ελλάδα)--Αρχαιότητες, Σαλαμίνα (Νησί, Ελλάδα)--Ιστορία, Ανασκαφές (Αρχαιολογία)--Ελλάδα--Σαλαμίνα
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σ. [287]-[326]
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Κείμενο στα ελληνικά με περίληψη στα αγγλικά με τον τίτλο: "A Cave with a mouth towards the sea": the Cave of Euripides in Salamis. Part I: Excavations in 1994-1997: a summary. Part II: The results of the 1997 campaign
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Κείμενο στα ελληνικά με περίληψη στα αγγλικά με τον τίτλο: "A Cave with a mouth towards the sea": the Cave of Euripides in Salamis. Part I: Excavations in 1994-1997: a summary. Part II: The results of the 1997 campaign
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Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Βιβλιοθήκη και Κέντρο Πληροφόρησης
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Μέρος Α'. Οι έρευνες των ετών 1994-1997: σύνοψη των αποτελεσμάτων
Μέρος Β': Η ερευνητική περίοδος του 1997: ευρήματα και πορίσματα
Μέρος Β': Η ερευνητική περίοδος του 1997: ευρήματα και πορίσματα
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