Round Building, Sparta, Laconia, Greece

Round Building, built with a curved wall around a hill in the Archaic period, c. 7th - 6th century BC, then in 2nd century AD adjoined a Roman colossal arcade, and still in use in Byzantine period, at Sparta, an Ancient Greek city-state founded c. 650 BC in Laconia, Greece. The building provided a platform at the top of the city as may have been a skias for performances or area for statues. Sparta was a powerful military city-state throughout the Greek ancient and classical periods, and was later inhabited by the Romans and Byzantines. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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