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Nick/www.greece-priv…, on October 28, 2007, said:
The temple of Epikurios Apollo stands at a height of 1130m on mount Kotilio, 14km south of Andritsaina. At this site, which was called Vassai (little valleys) in antiquity, the inhabitants of nearby Phigaleia founded a sanctuary of Apollo in the 5thc BC, where they worshipped the god with the epithet Epikourios- supporter in war or illness www.greecetaxi.gr/intex/apollon.html