Nemea museum . Elaborate stone lamps
In Korinth aka Corinth we rented a car... we paid a small fortune. The man would not budge from his price... he is only car rental in town and he pretty much had the market. We finally got the car and got past the dollar amount we paid .... we hate it when we get hammered and we have to go with it Deep Breath and go on....... and we drove to Nemea. Nemea has a temple area and is being worked on. The workers were singing and we could hear the hammers going. In the back (by the temple) they were making improvements on the floor. The whole place was very clean and looked like it was being restored. The museum was very complete. One interesting display was a bronze hydria with an inscription that said "I belong to Zeus at Nemea" and was dated 510 BC.
Nemea ~ Looking across at the pillars
Many of the displays were pottery shards. Some of the pottery dates were amazing. They were famous for their Nemean games.... (not Olympian) ... They had a movie that displayed the starting of races and explained the starting footing. It was really interesting ... They had pieces of marble with foot and toe places and the athletes lined up on them. Additionally, a tension rope was in front of them. When they started the rope fell to the ground... It was really quite an amazingly intricate machine (Once again, the ancients surprize us with their technology.)
A darling dog attached himself to us when we arrived...He was sort of a Greek Irish Setter look.... He loved us .....He faithfully followed us for almost an hour ..... then changed to a group of high schoolers.
Ancient Quarry: we saw the signs on the highway and pulled in to see it...
.. David was relieved as he could just see me trying to sneak it past customs....
We headed out to Mycenea... We saw a sign that said "Ancient Stone Quarry." We pulled in wondering what we would see. We could not believe how amazing it was! It was a series of stones cut in huge steps... we could see the tool marks from so many years before. This is the wonderful thing about Greece. History around every corner... We drove past quite a few of the little road side shrines. I took pictures of a few of them. They can be simple metal boxes or elaborate church shaped shrines. I love the variety. I don't fully understand them. I don't know if the people died there (like a car wreck) or if it was a favorite area of the deceased. I found it very moving to see little candles flickering in them at night....
On to Mycenae....
