HOLIDAYS IN AEGINA - PART IV
know foreign my is foreign okay a ah is and now let me tell you a few things about the temple of afinan fair the sanctuary affair was said to be a mountain and hunting goddess who protected shipping and aegina at the time was one of the most important shipping areas of the region if not the most important this temple was dedicated to affair and as the legend says she disappeared on this location on this very location where they built the temple the temple was built in the 5th century bc and it overlooks the aegean sea since it is built at the top of the highest area of the aegina island the mountain prosperity of agina is arisen for the beautifully built temple it is located as i said earlier on the highest area of um ajina island it's a pine clad hill known as message which is 150 meters in height on the north eastern side of the island the temple was built in 480 bc and nearly 20 25 out of the original dory columns still stand due to the skill of the restorers thank god for this the temple was built over the ruins of an earlier temple built around the 570 bc that existed at the very side but was later destroyed in the fire in 510 bc now let me tell you some details about the planning and the construction of the temple it's extra style peritoneal doric order structure on a 6 by 12 column plan resting on a 15.5 meter by 30.5 meter platform it has three outer columns that are monolithic where monolithic also it has three-step sloping rump provided access at the east end as compared to the other temples this has an unusual plan and is mostly known for their beautiful sculptures that shows a remarkable progress from archaic to early classical techniques the plan provides symmetrical sections in both the coordinates built in the doric style with 32 columns 12 on each side and 6 at the front and back the composition deals with the decreasing angles of the pediment by filling the space using the shield and the helmet now i'm going to tell you some more details about the planning and the layout of the temple it measures 28.8 meters by 13.7 meters along the stillovate height of columns is 5.2 33 times greater than their width at the base giving it the elongated airy fill temple complex covers an area of 640 square meters the pediments were not made at the same time the west pediment was earlier and those sculptures were curved when the temple was built about 490 bc in the archaic rhythm and the representation of it was the first story in war the east pediment was built about 480 bc and the characteristic of this pediment was what it was come to be known as the classical rhythm and represented the second trojan war the subject for both pediments as i said earlier was the great apples of omer the trojan war the reason for this was because a lot of the heroes of the trojan war were from the island of aegina two isosceles triangle were formed by the temple of affairs one of them was from the temple of affair here in agna with the temple of forces on atsunu at the temple of ephesus at the ceo of athens the second isosceles triangle was formed the temple of apollo at delphi and the parthenon at athens both aristotle and strabo insisted that these constructions of the sanctuaries were not accidental by any chance because we all know how much in the ancient years the ancient greeks believed in the harmonious relationships of the temples the oracles the tomes the sanctuaries and so on and now you see the planning and the layout of the whole temple of affair with all different spaces like the external terrace the star the priests houses the propylene the altars the old different altars the perivolos and so on that's one of the three places where el the triangle is made between the temple of affair the temple of poseidon atsunu and the parthenon so whenever the greeks wanted energy and power in order to do something great or in order to protect themselves from of any kind they would come here they would go to the sunya in the temple of poseidon or end to the parthenon so they would create this triangle and they would take this energy and this energy would help them do the impossible and here we are at the temple of afar in agna look how beautiful the temple is and all the scenery around look very you can see the sea all around because we are on an island right and there's storage all around such a beautiful place what do you think isn't it beautiful okay so that was the temple of afraid and now we're going back to the city of ayna and exactly opposite the temple of affair it's this beautiful place look at this this amazing place look at the tables and the chairs that are made of stones and look at the view how beautiful this is the bay of aya marina beautiful island of vegina so that's um the back side of it here we're looking east towards east south west north it's this way magnificent okay after a wonderful trip here at affair inegna we're taking the road back to the port of egina that will take us back to the port of fridayos and then back home bye bye egina down there it's one column what remains from the temple of apollo as you see the nature is so picturesque the beach down there so nice i didn't take you there with me but i can tell you although the the best beach we tried was from the other side at the back side of agina at a year marina underneath the temple of affair that was the best so this is the last look of aina for all of you from the deck of my boat vote that takes me back to perez yes channel i got my wheels i got my clean shirt i got enough to get me where she'll be my skin is burning my heart's on fire she will be there turn it up follow someone and now we're watching some street poker on the boat on the way from aegina as you see you know who's losing so far that's a tough question wait if your jump is going to collect you it's not that bad though okay i can i cannot see you so dark sit down please okay so well and what do you have to do in return now other than stripping completely and following the sea what else you can do right yeah push-ups down now okay how many how many okay way to go look ahead there's nothing but blue sky kiss the rain and laugh as it goes by learn to smile while everyone else cries um so i've been waiting through the winter i've been dreaming of this day all i know is so turn it up oh i got enough to get me where she is you
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