LINDOS
The modern village of Lindos. The entrance to the village is on the
north, by its only square, which is now used as a carpark and has a
large tree in the middle and a small fountain with many features
from the period of the Knights. Rocks behind and above it recall
ancient aqueducts. The graveyard is also at the entrance to the
village, containing the church of Phaneromeni. A little beyond and
below the square are the remains of the Moslem cemetery containing a
few graves, whose typical grave markers have been demolished. The
school has been moved to the side of the Megalo Yialo and the old
building, beside the church of the Panayia, built in the
neoclassical style, is now used by a local society for various
cultural events.
LINDOS ACROPOLIS
According to myth, the cult of Athena Lindia was pre-Hellenic,
although this is not borne out by the sporadic excavation finds. The
history of the sanctuary begins in the Geometric period (9th c. BC).
In the Archaoc period the tyrant of Lindos, Kleoboulos, revived the
cult and built a temple, probably on the site of an earlier one. The
Archaic temple had the same Doric tetrastyle amphiprostyle plan as
the subsequent one. The sanctuary was approached by a rough flight
of steps. After it was burnt down in 342 BC, the present temple was
built with the propylaea and the monumental staircase. The
Hellenistic stoa is later. In the 3rd c. BC the cult of Zeus Polieus
was introduced, although Athena remained the principal deity of the
sanctuary. In the Roman period the priest Aglochartos planted olive
trees on the spot, and according to an inscription the Sanctuary of
Psithyros was built close to the Temple of Athena (2nd c. AD).
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