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Achilles as guardian of the palace in the gardens, gazing northward toward the city. The inscription in Greek reads: ΑΧΙΛΛΕΥΣ ("Achilles"); commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II Wilhelm, expanding on the main theme of the grounds, commissioned his own Achilles statue from the sculptor Johannes Götz who created an imposing bronze sculpture ...
Gastouri is a Greek village and community located about 10 kilometres south of the city of Corfu. Gastouri was established as a settlement on 28 January 1866 by publication of the decision in the Greek government gazette. [2] In 1995, administratively, it belonged to the municipality of Achilleio. [2]
The seat of the municipality was the town of Gastouri (pop. 1,303). The municipality took its name from the palace Achilleion that Empress Elisabeth of Austria built there. The largest communities are Gastouri, Kynopiastes, Viros, Perama, Benitses , Káto Garoúna, and Kastellánoi.
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Achilleion (Ancient Greek: Ἀχίλλειον, romanized: Achilleion; Latin: Achilleum) was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. [1] It has been located on a promontory known as Beşika Burnu ('cradle promontory') about 8 km south of Sigeion. [2]
Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus, in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy. The Pasquino Group (also known as Menelaus Carrying the Body of Patroclus or Ajax Carrying the Body of Achilles) is a group of marble sculptures that copy a Hellenistic bronze original, dating to ca. 200–150 BCE. [1]
The church was discovered and excavated in 1978, during works on the local free-air market. [1] The excavations revealed the foundations of a mid-6th-century church, dedicated to St. Achilleios according to surviving inscriptions. [1] [2] Achillios had lived in the early 4th century and been the city's metropolitan bishop for 35 years. [1]
Thessaly or Thessalia (Attic Greek: Θεσσαλία, Thessalía or Θετταλία, Thettalía [1]) was one of the traditional regions of Ancient Greece.During the Mycenaean period, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, a name that continued to be used for one of the major tribes of Greece, the Aeolians, and their dialect of Greek, Aeolic.