Hail, sacred Delos, life-giver to Apollo! Hail, proud Delos, home of the Delians, until the Athenians conquered them and dispossed them! Hail, noble Delos, headquarters of the Delian League, whose treasury the Athenians looted to build their monuments! Hail, merciful Delos, slave-trader to the civilized world! Hail, eternal Delos, sacked by Mithradates VI due to a misunderstanding and then abandoned!
But there was a lot of nifty stuff there anyway.
Nifty pictures of Delos
A cistern, one of the few sources of fresh water on Delos.
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A view of the site, with the columns of a ruined temple.
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A fragment of a mosaic showing the face of Athena.
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A clay gorgon head in the museum.
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Details of the fine sculpting on a statue.
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It does look like they've lost something, but they're weighing anchor on
our tour boat as it prepares to return to Mykonos.
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Mykonos town, as seen on our return.
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I took pictures of a number of sites on Delos: the base of the statue of Apollo, the temple of Dionysus, the museum, the so-called trident house, another
house, and interesting-looking flowers.
There are also pictures from our return
to Mykonos.
