Delos

Lions on Delos

We took a ferry from Mykonos to the ancient sacred island of Delos.  We saw a lot of wells. Apollo and his sister Artemis were born there. We also saw the 4 lions that guarded Delos.  Mom read in the guide that there used to be 19 lions guarding Delos, but there were only 4 there now.   One of the lions was made to look ugly.  It had an ugly head.  Some pirates had attacked and destroyed the original head and they made a replacement head that was ugly.  They sent the ugly head lion to guard a church in Venice.

Temple of Apollo on Delos

My dad and my cousin hiked all the way to the top of the mountain.  

Tumbled outdoor theater seats

We saw a large outdoor theater with stone steps and seats all up the hillside.  My dad said that was the original Nintendo.  


We saw the mansion of the Trident.  There were mosaic tiles on the floors and the walls.