Priene, a 4th Century Greek city near the west coast of Turkey, so I don't have a lot of photos for this entry.
An ionic temple, the Sanctuary of Athena. The architect was Pytheos and the construction was initially supported by Alexander the Great, and then completed under Emperor Augustus.
The Hellenistic theatre, which at one time held between 5000 and 6500 people.
There were industrious farmers at work below us (you can sorta see them in context on the left side of the photo that follows this one).
This fertile farmland probably covers the original city of Priene, which was once a deep-water port on the coast, at the Bay of Miletus. At one time, this whole agricultural plain was under the sea, but silt from the Meander River has pushed it inland.
3 comments:
Funny. I wasn't expecting to see so much flat landscape in Turkey. Is that Spike posing in the first photo?
It's not, though it is one of the young women on the trip (most of the photos from the trip with identifiable people ended up on facebook, since affords at least a bit of privacy).
And yeah, I was shocked by such a wide expanse of perfectly flat land. It really was breathtaking. And since it's river silt, I bet it's just about the best soil ever.
River silt is excellent soil.
You almost had me rejoin Facebook. Almost. :-)
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