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Aegina is the second largest island of the Saronic Gulf and owes its name, according to Greek mythology, to the daughter of the god Asopos Aegina, whom Zeus fell in love with and abducted on the island of Oinoni, which was renamed Aegina. Temple at Aigina (Greek Ἀφαία) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped exclusively at this sanctuary. The extant temple of c. 500 BC was built over the remains of an earlier temple of c. 570 BC, which was destroyed by fire c. 510 BC. Elements of this older destroyed temple were buried in the infill for the larger, flat terrace of the later temple, and are thus well preserved. Abundant traces of paint remain on many of these buried fragments. There may have been another temple in the 7th century BC, also located on the same site, but it is thought to have been much smaller and simpler in terms of both plan and execution. Significant quantities of Late Bronze Age figurines have been discovered at the site.
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