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110: 223: 31: 233: 518: 190:(probably 7th century BC) is mentioned by the goddess, who is disguised as an old woman, as her landing place when she had been unwillingly brought from Crete. Thoricus directly faces Crete to the south, across the open 214:, respecting which there has been so much doubt, probably has reference to such a migration, as the poet is describing a similar translation of Oedipus. Cephalus is also said to have died at Thoricus. 143:
It continued to be a place of importance during the flourishing period of Athenian history, as its existing remains prove, and was hence fortified by the Athenians in the 24th year of the
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tombs (15th century BC) and a Late Mycenaean installation (12th century BC), probably connected with the mines in the area, have been uncovered. The finds are housed in the
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was mined from Neolithic times, and worked in the industrial quarter of the settlement. There is a theatre dating from c. 525–480 BC. The modern site is
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with benches. There was an unusual Double Stoa built in the late 5th century BC. Inscriptions have identified the large
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conducted the first modern excavation of the site, seeking the theatre.
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in 86 BC, and though it was reinhabited in Roman times, and visited by
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Autopsy in Athens. Recent Archaeological Research on Athens and Attica
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here has been largely connected with the Belgian School in Athens.
195: 269: 253: 206:) carried off to dwell with the gods. It has been conjectured by 187: 159: 98: 68: 63:, one of the twelve original settlements that were united in the 129:(3rd millennium BC) and of silver (now exhausted) from 1500 BC. 174:, it was permanently abandoned in the 6th century's disorders. 94: 474:"Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens" 167: 77: 546: 257: 121:(4th millennium BC). Thoricus was the mining centre of the 90: 55: 456:"The Vanishing Double Stoa at Thorikos and its Afterlives" 194:. Thoricus is celebrated in mythology as the residence of 199: 590: 125:. There is evidence of lead extraction from the 339: 335: 333: 331: 280:. The temple was initially explored by the 526: 328: 324:Archaeological Site of Thorikos: Overview 236:Floor plan of the Double Stoa at Thorikos 547:Thorikos Archaeological Research Project 462:. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 163–180. 231: 221: 158:There were significant town walls and a 108: 29: 533:Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography 362: 360: 71:to form Archaic Athens. It was later a 14: 591: 476:. University of Michigan Library. 2005 138:National Archaeological Museum, Athens 466: 453: 388: 357: 340:Wordsworth, Christopher (c. 1839). 24: 614:Populated places in ancient Attica 372:Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean 284:of London in 1817. In April 1886, 264:temple (late 5th century BC) as a 240:The ancient city's centre and its 25: 640: 609:Mycenaean sites in Central Greece 599:Former populated places in Greece 540: 227:Ancient Greek theatre of Thorikos 516: 117:The site was inhabited from the 530:, ed. (1854–1857). "Thoricus". 488: 34:Archaeological site of Thorikos 458:. In Margaret M. Miles (ed.). 447: 431: 418: 402: 382: 317: 244:are on Velatouri hill and the 13: 1: 310: 305:List of ancient Greek cities 276:, the "Maiden" her daughter 7: 454:Miles, Margaret M. 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Thoricus

Ancient Greek
deme
ancient Attica
Theseus
phyle
Acamantis
mines of Laurion
lead
silver
Lavrio

Neolithic Age
Laureotica
Early Helladic period
Mycenaean
tholos
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Peloponnesian War
stadia
Anaphlystus
postern
Makronisi
Sulla
Pausanias
Homeric Hymn
Demeter
Aegean Sea
Cephalus

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