Day Trip to East Attica
On Friday, February 22, we took a day trip to East Attica. Attica is a peninsula region of Greece that encompasses Athens and projects into the Aegean Sea. Since Athens is in this region, it's easy to take day trips around the region to see different things. That's precisely what we did! We left our apartments at 8:30 and traveled to Brauron (today it is known as Vravrona). Brauron was an ancient city of Attica and it was the home to a fairly large cult to Artemis, the goddess of hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, and chastity. The reason for this actually originates in the second Trojan War (the one Homer wrote about). The most popular version of the story is that King Agamemnon of Mycenae had to kill his daughter, Iphigenia, as a sacrifice to Artemis in order for the winds to be strong enough to carry his ships to Troy. However, there is another version in which Artemis switches out Iphigenia for a deer at the last second and esca...