Brauron

by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.

 

Brauron, in the ancient times called Vrauron, situated on the east coast of Attica, was one of the oldest sacredplaces in Greece, where the goddess of nature and the protector of fertility and childbirth, Artemis was worshipped. According to the myths Iphigenia, the daughter of the Mycenaean king Agamemnon, established this sanctuary.

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