The Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods in Brexiza |Marathon

Herodes Atticus, a wealthy aristocrat, patron of the arts, and great benefactor of Attica and other regions, was born in Marathon in 101 AD. After a long career in politics, philosophy, and rhetoric, he returned to Greece, where he funded a host of public works most notably the Stadium and the Odeon at Athens.
Herodes was especially fond of his native land; the extensive repairs to the great temple of Nemesis may be safely attributed to him. In 160 AD, he commissioned the sanctuary of the Egyptian gods, dedicated to Serapis a Hellenised version of the god Osiris as well as his consort Isis and their son Horus. Built on an area roughly resembling a small island ( actually called Nisi Greek for 'island'), the sanctuary was probably an allusion to the Serapeum built by Hadrian on an artificial island in the grounds of his villa in Tivoli, Rome. In turn, Hadrian's temple was meant to recall the surroundings of the original Serapeum in Canopus, an Egyptian city at the western edge of the Nile Delta.