Passaron
Coordinates: 39 ° 40 ′ 47 " N , 20 ° 44 ′ 36" E
Passaron was an ancient city in the Greek Epirus . Its ruins are a few kilometers west of Ioannina .
Passaron was the central place of the Molossians . The core of the settlement was built around a Zeus sanctuary. In the 4th century the settlement was expanded to a 10 hectare city. The fortified acropolis is a bit older. The oldest architectural traces of the sanctuary date from the end of the 4th century. The foundations of a peripteral temple of the Ionic order and an altar were found.
The first excavations in Passaron were carried out in 1914 by D. Evangelides.
literature
- Nikola Moustakis: Sanctuaries as Political Centers. Investigations into the multidimensional areas of activity of sanctuaries across the polis in ancient Epirus. Munich 2006, pp. 164–167.