Ancient Thera
Clifftop Dorian ruins overlooking the caldera, resettled after the island's Bronze Age eruption.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ancient Thera on Santorini opens with a strange scene in a harbour, where islanders turn on their own returning ships, and goes back to the seven-year drought that sent a king and a man named Battus to the oracle at Delphi. Herodotus is the main voice, and the orders the priestess gave them point well beyond the island. Best heard on the ridge of Mesa Vouno, with the sea far below you.
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