{"id":402,"date":"2008-08-30T13:17:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T13:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/?page_id=402"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","slug":"acragas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/acragas\/","title":{"rendered":"Acragas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tPerhaps the most incredible site of any Greek site, the Valley of the Temples &#8212; and not really a valley at all. The most iconic temples stretch up a rocky spur, but at the base of the spur is a collection of temples, including the massive Temple of Olympian Zeus, almost entirely in ruins &#8212; but enough remains to see that it was over 100m long and was built in a rather novel way, including telamones (huge human figures serving as columns) in some part.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe (certainly misnamed) Temple of Concord:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Concord.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Concord.jpg\"  height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Concord-thumb-240x180.jpg\"  width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tThe Temple of Hera:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Hera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hera.jpg\"  height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Hera-thumb-240x180.jpg\"  width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tA telamon from the Temple of Olympian Zeus:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/AcTelamon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AcTelamon.jpg\"  height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/AcTelamon-thumb-240x180.jpg\"  width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tThe ornamental fishpond, built by Theron with prisoner of war labor, now a citrus grove:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Fishpond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fishpond.jpg\"  height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Fishpond-thumb-240x180.jpg\"  width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tThere is also a breath-taking museum.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most incredible site of any Greek site, the Valley of the Temples &#8212; and not really a valley at all. The most iconic temples stretch up a rocky spur, but at the base of the spur is a&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/acragas\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Acragas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"parent":744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions\/852"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}