Explore the myths and temple of Aegina

The island of Aegina is just a few miles away from Athens. It's the perfect weekend getaway when you have had enough of the crowds of the Acropolis. Let me take you on a little getaway, to explore some fantastic ruins, including the Temple of Aphaia, with its ancient landscape preserved!

0:00 Introduction to Aegina
2:08 Aegina rival to Athens
3:24 Temple of Aphaia
5:19 Details of the final temple

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[ezfmh]

Thanks Darius! Great video. Nice to relive what we saw in person.

[DeneF]

I loved my years in Greece and miss it so deeply. Thanks Darius.

[ladymiriamful]

Thank you. I’m visiting Aegina this Sept 🇬🇷

[MrCarGuy]

The Greek Islands are very relaxing places to visit

[foamheart]

Thank you Darius! I'm from Munich and recently went back to the Glyptothek, where they even have a wooden model of the temple and its surroundings.

[mademoiselledusfonctionell]

I was on Aegina as a child with my family. I remember the warm nights*, the music seeping from the clubs (this was 1979 - I am old - so it was a lot of Bee Gees and Earth, Wind and Fire), running after a pickup with green lemons and stopping the driver to buy one (in those days, I could eat lemons as I ate oranges) and that the island was a bit like the island where we have our summer house: not a lot bigger, and close enough to the city for people to commute from there. Athens was not a match to Aegina, but we had to endure it to be able to see the Akropolis (which was luckily not as crowded then as now).
*) Back then, we rarely had warm nights even in summertime, and if there happened to be a warm night, there were also mosquitos. (Now, we often have warm nights in the summer. Not only are they still ruined by the presence of the darling mozzies, they are also ruined by climate anxiety.)

[chrisc]

You make great videos. I feel like i'm really there exploring the ancient ruins & it's interesting to learn about all the history. 🧐

[Simonjose]

5:10 Is that the same pediment for the same temple? It doesn't seem to fit? The mutules above the triglyphs only have 5 guteae instead of the usual 6 with an additional smaller mutule in between over the metopes with only 3 guteae! I assume the guteae below the triglypgs would match the ones above with 5 as well. On the temple you're showing they're are clearly 6 guteae and the mutules appear to be in the classic style also seen on the Parthenon. Also, the tympanum of the pediment in the museum you're showing doesn't seem large enough to fit all the sculpture you later show. Sorry to be so nit picky but I'm obsessed with ancient Greek and Roman architecture and I've never seen a pediment with those same details as the first one you show in the museum. If I saw that on a modern Greco-revival style building I would have thought it didn't have precedent and was a modern interpretation. I'm always seeing examples of the Greeks themselves breaking all the supposed "rules" of classic architecture. They were always experimenting and making adjustments. That's how they got the Athenian acropolis so right.

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