Archaeological site of Ancient Messene , Ruins of the Stadion and Prostylos Temple " The Mausoleum or Heroon ", near Kalamata , Messina, Messinia, Peloponnes, Greece - 4K stock video

The Gymnasium and Stadium complex at Ancient Messene. Peloponnese. Greece. The horse shoe-shaped end of the Stadium includes 18 tiers of seats with 18 rows of seats divided by stairways. Enclosing the stadium on three sides are Doric stoas belonging to the Gymnasium which has a monumental and elegant Doric Propylon. Ancient Messene was founded on the foothills of Mount Ithomi in 369 B.C as the ancient capital of liberated Messenia. At the end of the stadium in ancient Messene is The Mausoleum or Heroon, which is part of the stadium in Ancient Messene, is a Doric temple with four columns made of limestone, it belonged most likely to the elite family of the Saithidai, their members were buried there from the 1st to the 3rd c. A.D. Ancient Messene contains the ruins of the large classical city-state of Messene refounded by Epaminondas in 369 BC, after the battle of Leuctra and the first Theban invasion of the Peloponnese. The stadium in the remains of the city of Ancient Messene (also called Ancient Messini), an archaelogical site near Kalamata in Greece.