Sacred Stones: The Enduring Legacy of Ancient Greek Temples

Sacred Stones: The Enduring Legacy of Ancient Greek Temples

Despite initial impressions, ancient Greek temples were not built to impress 21st-century tourists; they were made to house gods. Although the statues are gone and the ceremonies have long since ended, these places still hold a quiet kind of power. It’s not just the scale of the columns or the age of the stone that stays with you, but the feeling that something important once happened here, and that, somehow, the memory of it still lingers.   Wh…