Thermos
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1499 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.560, 21.669
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: археологический памятник в Греции
History
Thermos was an ancient Greek sanctuary, which served as the regular meeting place of the Aetolian League. Its focal point was the temple of Apollo Thermios of about 630 to 610 BC, "one of the earliest developed Doric temples known and a monument of primary importance for our knowledge of the history of Greek architecture". The most famous survivals are the Archaic terracotta metopes decorated with painted scenes from mythology, which are among the earliest examples of this art form in Greece. What is left of these, and other finds from the site, are now in the museum at Thermos, with a selection of the best pieces in National Archaeological Museum, Athens.