About the Frieze

Post date: Dec 18, 2012 4:14:46 AM

The Dancer's Frieze from the Temeno can be found at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods in the Samothrace Temple Complex, Samothraki. Built immediately to the west of the city of Samothrace, the Sanctuary was celebrated throughout Ancient Greece for its Mystery religion, a Chthonic religious practice known to us as the Eleusinian Mysteries. Samothrace is heralded as one of the principal Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries and it is in the spirit of such gathering and worship that we used this image to represent the Agora⁴.

Image credit: Marsyas. Photograph utilized under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

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