Catching up. Spring is a good time to go to Greece because all the wildflowers are out. The glossy blood-red poppies, chamomile daisies, lantana and rock roses, small purple scabious, tall wild mallow. They’re all over the archaeological sites and knee deep under the silver-green olive trees. The ice saints are in the news at home. Saints days in May acting as reminders that there may yet be a frost. Don’t plant your seedlings out too soon. —/ We visited Rhamnous, not far from Marathon, known for its sanctuary of Nemesis. You can walk around the outlines of two temples and through the remains of the fortified city. From a distance the fortress looks like a tiny, parched Machu Picchu, but the first sanctuary here was built in the 6th century BCE, and Machu Picchu is just a baby, built in 15th century CE. Apparently, the cult of Nemesis formally came to an end on the orders of the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius. In 382 CE, he ordered the destruction of any surviving polytheist temples…
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