Hiera Orgas
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The 'Hiera Orgas', meaning ‘sacred meadow’, was a site which featured in at least two conflicts between Athens and Megara.
IG II3 1, 292, stele erected by the Athenians in 352/1 BC outlining the procedure taken in seeking advice from Delphi concerning the cultivation of a tract of sacred land (the Hiera Orgas) situated on the frontier between Athens and Megara.
Megara
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Megara is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times
Hiera Orgas
…The 'Hiera Orgas' (Ancient Greek: ἱερὰ ὀργάς), meaning ‘sacred meadow’, was a site which featured in at least two conflicts between Athens and Megara. The Hiera Orgas was a circular, fertile area of land sacred to the Eleusinian goddesses, Demeter and Persephone. It was probably situated on the…
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View of the archaeological site
Megara by Vincenzo Coronelli, 1687
Young Mother from Megara by Théodore Jacques Ralli c. 1878