Epidaurus, Mycenae, and Corinth, Greece

Katie and I visited ex-cities galore on the Pelaponnesse. The first that we saw, Epidaurus, was the site of the healing sanctuary of Asclepius, a god who came to you in your dreams and told you how to heal your illnesses. He also liked snakes. Creepy, but that’s how he rolled.

Also they had theater!

Nothing puts me in the mood for a musical like a wasting disease!

We found the sacred well (despite lack of signage), Fun!

The next city that we visited, Mycenae, was even older, and situated between two enormous mountains. Not a location that I’d like to siege.

The ominous clouds make the city even more forboding!
Katie and I stand at the massive Lion’s Gate, the entrance to the city

It’s Agamemmnon’s Father’s Tomb
(fun on the inside where it is shaped like a bee-hive with interesting acoustic properties)

And obviously, no ancient city would be complete without a secret cistern, accessed through a long, treacherous, winding tunnel, carved into the very living rock, and plunged into complete darkness. Clearly we had to explore this.

In the following picture, you can see Katie gripping the tool that we used the most on our trip, a tiny Swiss Army knife (given to my by the lovely Recebba) equipped with a small led light. It is somewhat surprising how much that particular feature of the knife was used on our trip.

The Secret Cistern …wooooooo!

Finally, we visited Corinth, which was a very hopping town approx. 2000 years ago. In fact, St. Paul was scandalized by the wild and crazy behavior and wrote them several strongly worded letters. My kind of town.

The oldest temple still extant in Greece
This view over the north side of town includes the Pyriene fountain.
It it quite elaborate. Romans = very into drainage.

Next, Katie and I make it to Delphi to crawl around under temples looking for Oracular Chasms (in the words of my Blue Guide, anway)!