Velia
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Velia was the Roman name of an ancient city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is located near the modern village of Novi Velia near Ascea in the Province of Salerno, Italy.
View of the excavations and the tower at Velia
The Porta Rosa, of sandstone blocks, is a rare exemplar of a Greek arch, circa 4th century BC
Roman baths
The Porta Rosa road was the main street of Elea, circa 4th-3rd centuries BC
Xenophanes
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Xenophanes of Colophon was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of Homer from Ionia who travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early Classical Antiquity.
6th century BC depiction of an Ancient Greek symposium. Xenophanes criticized these drinking parties as they were celebrated in his time for their excesses and failures to honor the gods.
Xenophanes was likely the first philosopher to offer a naturalistic rather than a mythological explanation for St. Elmo's Fire.