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Garni Temple: Armenia's Pagan Sanctuary and Hellenistic Survival
In the shadow of Mount Ararat, the Temple of Garni stands as a defiant testament to Armenia's pagan past and Hellenistic heritage. This episode explores how King Tiridates I — a Zoroastrian monarch on the Roman payroll — commissioned a Greco-Roman temple in the first century AD, blending architectural traditions from across the ancient world. We examine the site's unique survival: unscathed by early Christian iconoclasts, it became a royal summer palace and later a fortress. The temple was toppled by an earthquake in 1679 and painstakingly reconstructed in the 1970s, becoming a…
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