Editing Delos (section)

==Landmarks==
[[File:GR-delos-agora-compitaliasten.jpg|thumb|The [[Agora of the Competaliasts]]]]
* The small [[sacred lake]] in its circular bowl, now intentionally left dry by the island's caretakers to suppress the spread of malaria-bearing mosquitoes,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lonelyplanet.com/greece/attractions/sacred-lake/a/poi-sig/1445123/359417|title=Sacred Lake {{!}} Greece Attractions|website=Lonely Planet|language=en|access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref> is a [[topographical]] feature that determined the placement of later features.
* The [[Minoan Fountain]] was a rectangular public well hewn in the rock, with a central column; it formalized the sacred spring in its present sixth-century BC form, reconstructed in 166&nbsp;BC, according to an inscription. Tightly laid courses of [[masonry]] form the walls; water can still be reached by a flight of steps that fill one side.
* Several market squares were found; the [[Hellenistic]] [[Agora of the Competaliasts]] by the Sacred Harbour retains the [[postholes]] for market [[awnings]] in its stone paving. Two powerful Italic [[merchant guild]]s dedicated statues and columns there.
* The [[Temple of the Delians]], dedicated to Apollo, is a classic example of the [[Doric order]]. Beside the temple, once stood a colossal [[kouros]] of Apollo, only parts of which remain. Dating to the sixth&nbsp;century BC, parts of the upper torso and pelvis remain ''[[in situ]]'', a hand is kept at the local museum, and a foot is in the [[British Museum]].<ref>[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=459768&partId=1&place=34473&plaA=34473-3-1&page=1 British Museum Collection]</ref>
[[File:Terrace of the Lions 03.jpg|thumb|The Terrace of the Lions]]
* The Terrace of the Lions, also was dedicated to Apollo by the people of [[Naxos Island|Naxos]] shortly before 600&nbsp;BC. It originally had 9–12 squatting, snarling marble guardian lions along the Sacred Way; one was removed and is presently situated over the main gate of the [[Venetian Arsenal]]. The lions create a monumental avenue comparable to Egyptian [[Avenue of Sphinxes|avenues of sphinxes]]. (A Greek sphinx is in the Delos Museum.) Today, only seven of the original lions remain.
* The Oikos of the Naxians (House of the Naxians), first quarter of sixth&nbsp;century BC, has a long hall with one central ionic colonnade, a west porch tristyle in antis, and an east marble prostasis of the middle of the sixth&nbsp;century BC.<ref>Gruben G., Griechische Tempel und Heiligtümer, München, 2001</ref> 
* The Establishment of the Poseidoniasts, clubhouse of "the [[Koinon]] of the [[Berytian]] Poseidoniast merchants, shipmasters, and warehousemen",<ref>{{cite book|title=Gazette numismatique suisse| year=1992 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UN0KAQAAMAAJ|page=124}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Carter|first=Jane B.|chapter=Thiasos and Marzeaḥ|year=1997|editor-last=Langdon|editor-first=Susan|title=New Light on a Dark Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3FxoAAAAMAAJ|page=99|publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=9780826210999 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title =Hephaistos|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-JLAAAAYAAJ|year=2006|page=129}}</ref> during the early years of Roman [[hegemony]], late 2nd&nbsp;century BC. To their protective triad of [[Baal]]/[[Poseidon]], [[Astarte]]/[[Aphrodite]] and [[Eshmun]]/[[Asklepios]], they added [[Roma (mythology)|Roma]].
[[File:House of Dionysos 01.jpg|thumb|right|The 'house of Dionysus' named after a mosaic of Greek god [[Dionysus]] riding a panther]]
* The [[Doric order|Doric]] Temple of Isis was built on a high, overlooking hill at the beginning of the Roman period to [[venerate]] the familiar trinity of [[Isis]], the Alexandrian [[Serapis]], and [[Anubis]].
* The Temple of Hera, ''circa'' 500&nbsp;BC, is a rebuilding of an earlier Heraion on the site.
* The House of Dionysus is a luxurious second-century private house named for the floor [[mosaic]] of Dionysus riding a [[panther (legendary creature)|panther]].
* The House of the Dolphins is similarly named from its [[Atrium (architecture)|atrium]] mosaic, where [[Erotes (Mythology)|erotes]] ride [[Delphinus|dolphins]]; its [[Phoenicia]]n owner commissioned [[Mosaics of Delos|a floor mosaic]] of [[Tanit]] in his [[Vestibule (architecture)|vestibule]].
* The [[Stoivadeion]] dedicated to [[Dionysus]] bears a statue of the god of wine and the [[Energy (esotericism)|life-force]]. On either side of the platform, a pillar supports a colossal [[phallus]], the symbol of Dionysus. The southern pillar, which is decorated with relief scenes from the Dionysiac circle, was erected around 300&nbsp;BC to celebrate a winning theatrical performance. The statue of Dionysus was originally flanked by those of two actors impersonating ''Paposilenoi'' (conserved in the [[Archaeological Museum of Delos]]). The marble theatre is a rebuilding of an older one, undertaken shortly after 300&nbsp;BC.
* The “[[Delos Synagogue]]”, the ruins of what was once believed to be an ancient [[Samaritans|Samaritan]] [[synagogue]].<ref name=Delos>[https://archive.today/20120907135251/http://www.pohick.org/sts/delos.html Delos<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>