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Modern Description: On Odos Theorias opposite the University of Athens museum. The history is obscure, the additions many. Famous as the first burial place of Odysseas Androutsos, Greek war of independence hero and/or scoundrel, imprisoned and murdered by rival commanders during the siege of the Acropolis in 1825.
[Judith Binder: Metamorphosis, 13th-14th c., Akropolis North Slope ( Plan 1 epsilon—5/6, no. 91): Biris, K. 1966, 44-45 no. 110; A. Xyngopoulos, «Άττικής Βυζαντινοί ναοί Β'. Ναός Μεταμορφώσεως,» ΑΕ 1913, 137-143, figs. 8-12; Byzantine Monuments 1970, pls. 30-32; in front of the church was the grave of Odysseus Androutsos murdered by his enemies in the night of June 4/5, 1825, Maltezos, G. T. 1960, 74-75 no. 38]
Wikidata ID: Q20380177
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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