Brauron
Brauron(see map: Greece and the Aegean world), site of a sanctuary of Artemis on the east coast of Attica (the rural territory of Athens) at the mouth of the river Eridanos. It is included in the Athenian local historian Philochorus' (4th cent. bc) list of twelve townships united by Theseus (Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 328 F 94). Archaeological evidence indicates human presence in the area of the sanctuary and the acropolis above it from neolithic times onwards, and there is an important late Helladic cemetery nearby. In the sanctuary itself there is a continuous tradition from protogeometric on, with a temple built in the 6th cent. (Photius Lexicon, entry under Braurōnia) and an architecturally innovative pi-shaped stoa with dining-rooms built in the later part of the 5th cent. Flooding in the early 3rd cent....
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