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The seating has been renovated so there is no fear of sitting on worn stone, but this is perhaps your greatest opportunity to view a performance as the ancients did.
Traditional shapes of urns, jugs, and cups are decorated with scenes taken from the lives of the ancients or of the Greek gods in their domain on Mount Olympus.
In one legend Quetzalcoatl is sent to the underground to get the bones of the ancients.
The windswept peninsula of southern Attica reaches out towards the Aegean Sea, and at its very tip (70 km/43 miles south of Athens) the ancients built a beautiful Temple to Poseidon, the God of that watery realm.
An aside halfway through the piece likens FBI agents, scanning the Internet for hacker assaults and political extremists, to "ancients searching the skies for a sign."