Edipsos is not a new phenomenon. Edipsos has a long history, where the cosmopolitan atmosphere combined with the healing spas have attracted reknown politicians, artists, writers and other notable people like Winston Churchill, Aristotle Onnasis, Maria Callas, Greta Garbo and Omar Sharif.
Already from antequity it is mentioned in the works of Aristotle in his Meteorological, and by Ploutarch and Strabon. The town even minted its own coins. The ancient legend says that Goddess Athena asked Hephaestus to create a warm bath for her beloved hero Hercules so that after each challenge to go and rest. The God of Fire made the favor of his sister and he has struck with a hammer in the land of Aedipsos. Immediately the hot water run!
In Roman times the area flourished and its healing waters were visited by the emperors Hadrian, Septimus Severus and Marcus Aurilius. The baths from the Roman period are the best preserved and are known as Syllas Baths. During the Byzantine era it was destroyed for being an area of paganism though it was visited by the Emperors Theodosious and Constantine the Great.
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