Saturday 8 September 2018

Rhamnous




Rhamnous (GreekῬαμνοῦς), also Ramnous or Rhamnus, was an ancient Greek city in Attica situated on the coast, overlooking the Euboean Strait
Its impressive ruins lie northwest of the modern town of Agia Marina in the municipality of Marathon.
The site was best known in antiquity for its sanctuary of Nemesis, the implacable avenging goddess, her most important in ancient Greece.

Nemesis  also called Rhamnousia or Rhamnusia ("the goddess of Rhamnous"), 
The sanctuary of Nemesis lies on the road between Rhamnous and Marathon, around 630m south of the later city.





The badly damaged remains of an over life-size marble head from a cult statue of Nemesis, with perforations for attaching a gold crown, was discovered by the British architect John Gandy in the early nineteenth century and is now part of the British museums collection.
This has a stylistic similarity to the pediment sculptures of the Parthenon of 440-432 BC.




After Hubris comes Nemesis



She was the goddess who enacted retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the gods). 



Snapshot

Rhamnousia (Nemesis) of Rhamnous










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