Phigalia
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Phigalia or Phigaleia or Phigalea, also known as Phialia, was an ancient Greek city in the south-west corner of ancient Arcadia, in the region of ancient Parrhasia close to the frontiers of Messenia,
Temple of Athena
The ruins of the Temple of Athena in Phigalia
Ancient fountain
Onatas
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Onatas was an ancient Greek sculptor of the time of the Persian Wars and an exponent of the flourishing school of Aegina. Many of his works are mentioned by Pausanias; they included a Hermes carrying
Phigalia
…were preserved near Phigalia, including that of the fishtailed goddess Eurynome and the Black Demeter with a horse's head, whose image was renewed by Onatas. Notices of it in Greek history are rare and scanty. Though its existing ruins and the description of Pausanias, who describes it as situated upon a…
Statue of Onatas on the facade of the New Hermitage Building in St Petersburg, Russia