Rhypes

Rhypes (Greek Ῥύπες ) was an ancient Greek city on the Gulf of Corinth.

The location of the ancient city Rhypes is still considered unsafe. Probably she was on the trapeza Aigion ( neugr. Τραπεζά Αιγίου ), a towering Table Mountain, an almost predestined Acropolis, amid the steep vineyards on the Gulf of Corinth.

The trapeza projects around very steeply ( highest point: ~ 451 m) to the southwest and has only one flat to the adjacent higher mountains expiring saddle. Ancient ruins are visible on the entire range of trapeza and in some places along the steep escarpment are protected by solid walls to see. If we calculate this surface so obtained is a city area of ​​approximately 272,000 m2.

Because of these ancient remains of an identification with the ancient place Rhypes already occurred by Jean A. Lebègue (1871 ), Friedrich von Duhn (1877 ), Alexandros Alexandroupoli ( Ἀλέξανδρος Γ Ἀλεξανδρόπουλος; . 1920), Ernst Meyer ( 1939) and most recently D. Müller (1987). On the basis of Meyer in a drawn by G. Buechli card and the photo of a fluted column drum, the location of the former Ephorus of Antiquities, Ioannis Papapostolou ( Ιωάννις Παπαποστόλου ), in 1972 abbildete in the photo, could by Andreas G. Vordos ( Aνδέας Γ the remains of a temple to be identified. Βόρδος ) 1996. The building was provisionally dated to the last decades of the 6th century BC by Antefixes of surface finds in the inner temple area.

Since 2000, the reference is provided by the Greek Ministry of Culture under protection. 2003 m2 expropriated in a first stage 13,000 for an archaeological site, a further approx 47,000 m2 will follow in the future. To protect the ruins of temples from the extreme temperature fluctuations from direct sunlight and frost and rain, a trapezoidal sheet metal roof with an area of ​​800 m2 was built of steel column-free interior. This shelter is after the one on the Bassai ( Peloponnese ) and Malia ( Crete) to the third-largest free-spanning Greece.

Founding of Croton

The municipality of Rhypes founded in the late 8th century BC, the city of Croton in southern Italy.

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