The Three Graces
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A beautiful horse in black marble
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Young performers in the tourist ceremony
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Mixing pancake dough for traditional pancakes as part of the celebration
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Rolling out dough
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The ladies making pancakes
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Cooking the pancakes
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This lady was amused at me taking her photo
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What a face!
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Priene
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The guy who sells you tickets
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Priene is a long climb up a hillside
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The theater
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Rinkside seats
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Dan tries one too
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What looks like the base of a pulpit with Christian symbol on it.
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Earthquakes were not kind to these cities, strewing column sections everywhere
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Looking toward the Temple to Athena
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This area below was once a harbor but the water receded and now it's agricultural
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And here was where Alexander the Great reputedly lived in Priene
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More Greek Legos
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Fellow citizens....the Buleuterion where the council met is square not round as in other sites
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the Buleuterion where the council met is square not round as in other sites
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Two butterflies mating
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One can almost imagine the original city bustling with activity
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The Temple of Athena
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Works of art
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Your first view of Miletus is the enormous theater, one of the largest ever built
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The theater from the upper level seats
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