<< Our Photo Pages >> Lion of Chaeronea - Carving in Greece in Central Greece
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Multi-periodSite Name: Lion of ChaeroneaCountry: Greece
NOTE: This site is 0.261 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Central Greece Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Cheronia
Latitude: 38.494939N Longitude: 22.848303E
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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bat400 visited on 29th May 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5 The open area where the monument is sited is now a grassy depression with a semicircular plaza around it.
davidmorgan have visited here
A monument to the Thebans who were wiped out by the Macedonians Philip II and his son Alexander in 338 BCE.
Added by bat400: Pausanias (2nd C AD) wrote in his Description of Greece: "As you approach the city you see a common grave of the Thebans who were killed in the struggle against Philip. It has no inscription, but is surmounted by a lion, probably a reference to the spirit of the men." (English Translation: W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; 1918. )
Fragments of this monument were discovered in 1818 at the site of a grave mound later found to have 254 sets of remains, supporting it as the burial mound of the Theban Sacred Band. The lion monument was re-constructed but some of what exists today is a modern speculative creation.
The monument is just to the east of the Chaeronea Archaeological Museum with its displays of the prehistoric through Roman periods.
Traditionally the lion faces the grave mound of the Macedonians.
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