Qualla: Rhamnous https://qualla.com/rhamnous en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/1/rhamnous-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Rhamnous https://qualla.com/rhamnous Rhamnous: Introduction https://qualla.com/rhamnous/ Photo credit George E. Koronaios, CC0. The Persians, the story goes, were so certain of victory that they brought their own marble. A great block of it, hauled across the sea to carve a trophy for the conquest of Athens. They never got the chance. After the invaders were broken, the Athenians took that same block and gave it to a sculptor, who shaped it into a statue of Nemesis, the goddess of retribution, the punisher of arrogance. And they set her on a remote headland called Rhamnous, looking out across the water the Persian fleet had crossed, so that pride itself would have a face and a coastline to haunt.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/1/rhamnous-wp/swc1-rhamnous-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rhamnous: The Goddess of Reckoning https://qualla.com/rhamnous/ Photo credit George E. Koronaios, CC0. Nemesis was not a comfortable deity. She measured out what people deserved and saw that they got it, especially those who reached too high. Her great sanctuary at Rhamnous was the most important in all of Greece, and it suited her to be worshipped here, at the edge of Attica, awa...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/1/rhamnous-wp/swc1-rhamnous-the-goddess-of-reckoning.mp3 0:06 2 full Rhamnous: The Statue Built From Hubris https://qualla.com/rhamnous/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0. Construction of the larger temple to Nemesis began around 460 to 450 BC, and inside its cella stood the cult statue, roughly four meters tall. Pausanias credited it to Pheidias, the master who made the great Athena of the Parthenon; other ancient writers gave it to his pupil Agor...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/1/rhamnous-wp/swc1-rhamnous-the-statue-built-from-hubris.mp3 0:06 3 full Rhamnous: A Fortress Frozen in Time https://qualla.com/rhamnous/ Photo credit Andreas Kakaris, CC BY-SA 4.0. Rhamnous was more than a shrine. It was a fortified deme, the best-preserved town site in all of Attica, perched on a rocky peninsula that the sea wraps on two-thirds of its sides. A narrow ridge tethers it to the mainland; everything else is water and cliff. Athens kept a perman...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/1/rhamnous-wp/swc1-rhamnous-a-fortress-frozen-in-time.mp3 0:06 4 full Rhamnous: The Temple That Was Loved https://qualla.com/rhamnous/ Photo credit Zblace, CC BY-SA 4.0. Most temples in Attica met a slow, humiliating end, quarried for their stone or carted off whole to Athens. The Temple of Nemesis was treated differently. When the Romans renewed their interest in old Greek monuments, they repaired it with care, replacing the damaged east end and...

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