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The Nekromanteion (Oracle of the Dead) at Acheron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | This building is dated to the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 3rd century B.C. Later, at the end of the 3rd century B.C., a complex of buildings was added to the west of the initial structure, consisting of a central court around which there were rooms and storerooms. |
 | | The majority of the finds belong to the period of the flourishing of the sanctuary, in the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. but objects dating from the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 3rd century were also uncovered. |
 | | Through isolation, magical rituals, prayers and invocations, wandering in the dark corridors, having the common faith in the apparition of the dead, and being obliged to follow a special diet, they were appropriately prepared to meet the souls of the dead. |
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