The Cyclades: a circle of islands; a circle of civilization whose beginnings are lost in the mists of time, when the Ancient Cycladic peoples fashioned the first stone weapons, when the first marble idol was made, when their primitive boats traveled from island to island. There are thirty-four islands and an infinity of tiny rocky islets, remnants of geological upheavals in millennia gone by, pieces of a stony area in the middle of the Aegean. It was to here, the center of the circle, Delos, that Leto fled, pursued by a jealous Hera, to give birth to Zeus’s offspring, Artemis and Apollo. Thus Delos became the first sacred island, dedicated to the worship of Apollo, an important religious center, and the headquarters of the common Treasury of the Greeks.

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