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Pella is one of the the 51 prefectures of Greece. Its capital town is Edessa.
The city-state of Pella was the palace-capital of ancient Macedon, (now in Greece), removed from the older palace-city of Aigi ( Vergina) by king Archelaos , (413399 BCE), who invited the painter Zeuxis, the greatest painter of the time, to decorate it. Archelaos was the host of the Athenian playwright Euripides in his retirement. Euripides Bacchae premiered here, about 408 BCE. Pella was the birthplace of Philip II of Macedon and of Alexander the Great, his son. The hilltop palace of Philip, where Aristotle tutored young Alexander, is being excavated.
In antiquity, Pella was a port connected to the Thermaic Gulf by a navigable inlet, but the harbor has silted, leaving the site landlocked.
Archaeological digs in progress since 1957 have uncovered a small part of the city, which was made rich by Alexander and his heirs. The large agora or market, was surrounded by the shaded colonnades of stoas, and streets of enclosed houses with frescoed walls round inner courtyards. The first trompe-l'oeil wall murals imitating perspective views ever seen were on walls at Pella. There are temples to AphroditeAphrodite (φροδτη, "risen from sea-foam") is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Worship The epithet Aphrodite Acidalia was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used to bathe in, located in Boeotia ( Virgil, DemeterDemeter (or Demetra (DEH-MEH-ter) ("goddess mother" or " barley mother") is the Greek goddess of agriculture, the pure nourisher of youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. She is and CybeleOriginally a Phrygian goddess, Cybele (sometimes given the etymology "she of the hair" if her name is Greek, not Phrygian) ( Roman equivalent: Magna Mater or 'Great Mother') was the Earth Mother goddess who was worshipped in Anatolia from Neolithic times., and Pella's pebble-mosaic floors, dating after the lifetime of Alexander, are famous: some reproduce Greek paintings; one shows a lion-griffin attacking a stag, a familiar motif also of Scythian art, another depicts DionysusDionysus the name of a god, is occasionally confused with Dionysius the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse. Dionysus (or Dionysos also known as Bacchus in Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber , the Greek god of wine, represents not only the intoxic riding a leopard.
The famous poet AratusAratus ( Greek Aratos) (circa 315 B. was a Macedonian Greek poet, known for his technical poetry. Life and Writings Aratus was born in Soli on the island of Cyprus. He spent time at the courts of the Egyptian court of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and the Syrian died in Pella circa 240 BCE. Pella was sacked by the Romans in 168 BCE, when its treasury was transported to Rome. It was then destroyed by earthquake in the 1st century BC; shops and workshops dating from the catastrophe have been found with remains of their merchandise. The city was rebuilt over its ruins, which preserved them.
See also: ThessalonikiThessaloniki is the second-largest city of Greece and is the principal city of the Greek region of Macedonia. Greeks refer to it unofficially as the "capital of Macedonia". The city is also known variously as Selanik Salonika or Salonica , Solun). It has
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