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The Cave of Euripides is a ten-chamber cave
Cave

A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos....
 in Peristeria
Peristeria

Peristeria may refer to:* Peristeria , the handmaiden of Venus, who was transformed into a dove* Peristeria , a genus of orchids* Peristeria, Drama, a village in the Drama Prefecture, Greece...
 on Salamis Island
Salamis Island

Salamis is the largest Greece island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile off-coast from Piraeus and about 16 km west of Athens. Due to its roughly crescent shape, the island is also locally known as Koulouri, after the koulouri....
, Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
, and the subject of archaeological
Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
 investigation. Its name comes from its long reputation as the place where the playwright Euripides
Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
 came for sanctuary to write his tragedies
Tragedy

Tragedy is a form of The arts based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific Poetic tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western culture....
.

In the 1990s excavations were made under the direction of Yannos G. Lolos, Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Ioannina
University of Ioannina

The University of Ioannina is a university lying in the plains 5 km southwest of Ioannina, Greece. The campus is linked to the town by Greek National Road 5....
, Epirus
Epirus

The name Epirus, from the Greek language "?pe????" meaning continent may refer to:...
, in collaboration with the Department of Palaeoanthropology of the Greek Ministry of Culture.

s dated from the late Neolithic
Neolithic

The Neolithic period was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 Before the Christian Era in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age....
 onward, including pottery, stone implements and arrowheads; classical 5th century BC pottery; and Roman period pottery, figures, votive items and jewellery, generally suggesting its long-term use as a place of worship.






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The Cave of Euripides is a ten-chamber cave
Cave

A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos....
 in Peristeria
Peristeria

Peristeria may refer to:* Peristeria , the handmaiden of Venus, who was transformed into a dove* Peristeria , a genus of orchids* Peristeria, Drama, a village in the Drama Prefecture, Greece...
 on Salamis Island
Salamis Island

Salamis is the largest Greece island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile off-coast from Piraeus and about 16 km west of Athens. Due to its roughly crescent shape, the island is also locally known as Koulouri, after the koulouri....
, Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
, and the subject of archaeological
Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
 investigation. Its name comes from its long reputation as the place where the playwright Euripides
Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
 came for sanctuary to write his tragedies
Tragedy

Tragedy is a form of The arts based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific Poetic tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western culture....
.

In the 1990s excavations were made under the direction of Yannos G. Lolos, Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Ioannina
University of Ioannina

The University of Ioannina is a university lying in the plains 5 km southwest of Ioannina, Greece. The campus is linked to the town by Greek National Road 5....
, Epirus
Epirus

The name Epirus, from the Greek language "?pe????" meaning continent may refer to:...
, in collaboration with the Department of Palaeoanthropology of the Greek Ministry of Culture.

Discoveries

Finds dated from the late Neolithic
Neolithic

The Neolithic period was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 Before the Christian Era in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age....
 onward, including pottery, stone implements and arrowheads; classical 5th century BC pottery; and Roman period pottery, figures, votive items and jewellery, generally suggesting its long-term use as a place of worship. The most notable discovery was a glazed skyphos
Skyphos

In classifying the pottery of Ancient Greece, a skyphos is a two-handled deep wine-cup on a low flanged base or none. The handles may be horizontal ear-shaped thumbholds that project from the rim , or they may be loop handles at the rim or that stand away from the lower part of the body....
 dating from the late 5th century BC and inscribed with the partial name of Euripides. In combination with location details described by ancient sources such as Philochoros, Satyros and Aulus Gellius
Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius , Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at Rome.He studied grammar and rhetoric at Rome and philosophy at Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office....
, this was interpreted as a votive offering to Euripides, and widely reported as confirmation of the site as his sanctuary.