1/23/2023 0 Comments Dark sun shattered lands mapAt the village of Paliourio, road and river converged, and leaving my car, I wandered down a track that led to a shattered bridge shored with makeshift planking. On my right, at some distance from the road, screened by cotton fields and intermittent olive groves, flowed the Spercheios. Away on the left, the foothills of Mount Oiti were hazed with heat. I arrived there in late October, but it still felt like summer, and few people were around. The Spercheios river-which, legend tells us, was dear to the warrior Achilles-marks the southern boundary of the great Thessalian plain in central Greece. The area has yielded significant evidence of interaction between Mycenaean Greeks and Anatolians.
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