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In 2012 [20] Greek archaeologists unearthed a large tomb within the Kasta Hill, the biggest burial mound in Greece, northeast of Amphipolis. The large size and quality of the tumulus indicates the prominence of the burials made there, and its dating and the connections of the city with Alexander the Great suggest important occupants.
Hagnon, son of Nikias (Ancient Greek: ῞Αγνων ὁ Νικίου) [1] was an Athenian general and statesman. In 437/6 BC, he led the settlers who founded the city of Amphipolis in Thrace; in the Peloponnesian War, he served as an Athenian general on several occasions, and was one of the signers of the Peace of Nicias and the alliance between Athens and Sparta.
Amphipolis — c. 200 BC Meletemata 22, Epig. App. 12 SEG 40.524 Archaic and Classical Greece By Michael Hewson Crawford, David Whitehead Page 596 ISBN 0-19-284202-1 The Hellenistic Age from the battle of Ipsos to the death of Kleopatra VII By Stanley Mayer Burstein Page 88 ISBN 0-521-28158-X
Kasta tumulus and Amphipolis location map Kasta tumulus – view from Amphipolis. The Kasta Tomb (Greek: Τύμβος Καστά), also known as the Amphipolis Tomb (Greek: Τάφος της Αμφίπολης), is the largest ancient tumulus (burial mound) ever discovered in Greece, and by comparison dwarfs that of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, in Vergina.
Outside view Museum of Amphipolis (Basement). The Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis is a museum in Amphipolis, Central Macedonia, Greece.It is located in the archaeological site of ancient Amphipolis (a city founded in 437 BC), near River Strymon at close range of the Thessaloniki–Kavala national highway and within the walls of the ancient city itself.
King Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, used the war as an opportunity to further the interests of his Macedonian kingdom in the Aegean region. In 357 BC, Philip captured Amphipolis, a depot for the gold and silver mines from Mount Pangaion and the approach to it, as well as for timber, securing Macedon's economic and political future.
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The Lion of Amphipolis (Greek: Λέων της Αμφίπολης) is a 4th-century BC tomb sculpture near Amphipolis, Macedonia, northern Greece. According to Oscar Broneer and archaeologist Dimitris Lazaridis , the first person excavating in the area in the 1960s, it was set up in honour of Laomedon of Mytilene , an important general of ...