id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9580 Eretria - Wikipedia .html text/html 5096 664 67 Excavations of the ancient city began in the 1890s and have been conducted since 1964 by the Greek Archaeological Service (11th Ephorate of Antiquities) and the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece.[2] The ancient writer Plutarch mentions a woman of Eretria, "who was kept by Artabanus" at the Persian court of Artaxerxes, who facilitated the audience that Themistocles obtained with the Persian king.[3] During the fifth century BC the whole of Euboea became part of the Delian League, which later became the Athenian Empire. The temple of Apollo Daphnephoros is the most important and wider known monument of Eretria, featuring sparkling and sharp sculptures on the pediments, their postures well in advance of experiments in Athens of the time.[10] Together with its enclosure it constituted the sacred temenos of Apollo, a religious centre and fundamental place of worship within the core of the ancient city, to the north of the Agora. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9580.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9580.txt