Aegina Books
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Free Press (10 September 1998)Price: $17.78
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Aegina was an early rival of Athens and fought against it in the first Peloponnesian War, where Aegina was probably backed by the Persian who not only protected their trade interests, but also supported the enemy of their enemy (ie. Athens).
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Today, traveling an hour by ferry from Piraeus, the port of Athens, the first remnant of Aegina’s great past a visitor will see is the lonely pillar of Apollo rising from the trees on the hill of Kolona. Once a splendid complex of three buildings (the Temple of Apollo itself rose on eleven large pillars and six smaller ones) and a cemetery (in which a large collection of gold and jewelry was found in the tombs, now housed in the British Museum) the pillar of Apollo is all that remains. This seems a fitting symbol for the whole of Aegina’s history: the island which once boasted the best wine, a high standard of living and a naval fleet which rivaled that of Athens is, today, known as the leading producer of pistachio nuts in Greece.
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