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 | | The old bridge over the Strymon is guarded by the Lion of Amphipolis statue; the colossal animal, reassembled from fragments in 1936-37, has been mounted on a pedestal built on the ancient foundation with blocks of the 2C BC dredged from the Strymon, where they may have been reused in a medieval dam. |
| | Deriving its wealth from the gold mines of the Pagaion mountain, Amphipolis was one of their most important N possessions: hence the consternation when it surrendered to the Spartan Brasidas in 424. |
| | Amphipolis was seized by Philip II of Macedon in 358. |
| www.grecian.net /GREECE/macedonia/serres/amphipolis/amphipolis.htm (670 words) |
