The Enigma of the Tholoi
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 - On my last day in Delphi I had only one obligation: inspecting two hotels in the city center, and of course during lunch time... but the morning was free for me to visit the Athena Pronaia archaeological site thoroughly. It was a lovely, sunny day and it being mid-October I was enchanted by the mystical low, yellowish early morning sunlight; a magical atmosphere enhanced by the fact that there was hardly anyone there - no groups, no crowd. Only when I left to get back to the town center, a school class from England arrived; I wonder if they realized how lucky they were to go on a school outing to Greece! Among the ruins of the archaeological site stands the most famous tholos of Greece. There is something special about these enigmatic circular temples; something even historians and archaeologists cannot explain what exactly they were used for. Most of them are from the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE, but it is commonly agreed that they are based on older