Book Title: Parergon, siue, Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae

Author: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598

Image Title: The Vale of Tempe

Description: The Vale of Tempe, a region in Thessaly connected to the god Apollo and the Muses, with Mount Olympus (background). In 480 BCE Athenians and Spartans tried to stop a Persian invasion there, but they were bypassed by the attackers.

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