page_title: Sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas
hierarchical_section_title: Sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas
caption_attribution_description: English: Statuette of Aphrodite found in Epidaurus, in the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas. It reproduces a bronze prototype by Kallimachos, dated to 410 BC. Representing Aphrodite holding and apple in her hand, and shown either as a goddes of vegetation and fertility, or as participant in the judgement of Paris. Marble. 1st-century AD. Inv. number 1811. Español: Estatuilla de Afrodita encontrada en Epidauro, en el santuario de Apolo Maleatas. Reproduce un prototipo de bronce de Calímaco, datado en el 410 aC. Representa a Afrodita sosteniendo una manzana en su mano, y se muestra como una diosa de la vegetación y la fertilidad, o como participante en el juicio de Paris. Mármol. Siglo I. Nº inv. 1811.
context_page_description: The sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas is located on a low hill on Mount Kynortion, east of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus.
  At the peak of the hill was a small Early Helladic settlement, which was never built on in later periods. At the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, an open-air altar was used where animals were sacrificed and votives deposited in the ash. Dedications include votive bronze double axes, bronze swords, and clay animal figurines. There is evidence for cult activity in the Geometric period.
  Most of the structures on the site belong to the 4th century BC or to the 2nd century AD, when there was a major building campaign paid for by Sextus Iulius Maior Antoninus Pythodorus, an aristocrat from Nysa, Anatolia and a Roman senator. Pausanias reports that "everything about the sanctuary of Maleatas, including the cistern in which the holy water is collected, is also a gift of Antoninus to the Epidaurians", and describes the temple:
  "[By Epidauros, Argolis there is] mountain called Kynortion; on the latter is a sanctuary of Apollon Maleatos.
context_section_description: The sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas (Greek: Ἀπόλλων Μαλεάτας) is located on a low hill on Mount Kynortion, east of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus.
  At the peak of the hill was a small Early Helladic settlement, which was never built on in later periods.  At the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, an open-air altar was used where animals were sacrificed and votives deposited in the ash.  Dedications include votive bronze double axes, bronze swords, and clay animal figurines.  There is evidence for cult activity in the Geometric period.
  Most of the structures on the site belong to the 4th century BC or to the 2nd century AD, when there was a major building campaign paid for by Sextus Iulius Maior Antoninus Pythodorus, an aristocrat from Nysa, Anatolia and a Roman senator.  Pausanias (2.2.7) reports that  "everything about the sanctuary of Maleatas, including the cistern in which the holy water is collected, is also a gift of Antoninus to the Epidaurians", and describes the temple: 
  "[By Epidauros, Argolis there is] mountain called Kynortion; on the latter is a sanctuary of Apollon Maleatos. The sanctuary itself is an ancient one, but among the things [the Roman senator] Antoninos made for the Epidaurians are various appurtenances for the sanctuary of [Apollon] Maleatos, including a reservoir into which the rain-water collects for their use."
  The temple could not have been in functioned to a later date than the 4th- or 5th-century, when all pagan shrines where closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire.
  Remains on the site include Roman baths, an underground cistern, a Roman fountain, a small Doric temple of Apollo (4th century BC, hexastyle prostyle), an altar, a shrine of the muses, living quarters for the sanctuary staff, a Roman gateway, and a stoa (late 4th century BC).
caption: Statuette of Aphrodite found in the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas. 1st-century AD. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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