Temple of Artemis Aulideia

At Aulis, the ancient port on the Euripus Strait, the Temple of Artemis Aulideia marks a site layered with Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique remains. Aulis was never an independent city-state, belonging instead to Thebes and later Tanagra. Its fame comes from Homer's Iliad, where the Greek fleet gathered before sailing for Troy, and where Artemis calmed the winds to punish Agamemnon for killing a sacred deer and boasting. Standing among these ruins, you sense how myth and history intertwined at this narrow crossing between Boeotia and Euboea.