Tracing Paul and Silas' journey through Amphipolis and Apollonia to Thessalonica. Mostly maps and interesting archaeological discovery in Amphipolis: the Lion and Kasta Tomb.

1. PAUL’S SECOND
MISSIONARY JOURNEY
ACTS 17

5. VIA EGNATIA
THE EGNATIAN WAY
• The Via Egnatia covered approximately 696
miles (746 Roman miles).
• Like other major Roman roads, it was about
19.6 feet wide.
• Paved with large polygonal stone slabs or
covered with a hard layer of sand.

7. AMPHI ”around”
POLIS ”city state”
AMPHIPOLIS
“Around the city state”
“Amphipolis” because the Strymon
flows around it to the Sea

8. Largest tomb
in Greece

9. LION OF AMPHIPOLIS
at the Kasta Tomb

10. LION OF AMPHIPOLIS
4th century BC tomb sculpture in
Amphipolis, Macedonia, Greece
Erected in memory of Laomedon of
Myteline (one of Alexander the
Great’s generals)
Roughly 15.84 meters high

11. The lion’s
head has a
width of
2 meters!

14. APOLLONIA

16. THESSALONICA
QESSALONIKI

20. THESSALONIKI
MILESTONE
mentioning
Gnaeus Egnatius
The Egnatian Way
was named after
Gnaeus Egnatius
ca. 142 BCE

22. RESOURCES IN SLIDE ORDER
• Map of Mediterranean Basin
http://bibleroads.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Manna_Pauls2ndJourney.jpg
• Map of area (used multiple times)
https://biblos.com
• Via Egnatia – Municipality of Kavala, Greece (a.k.a. Philippi)
https://www.visitkavala.gr/
• Via Egnatia – Photo by Marcus Cyron. Used with permission. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Via_Egnatia,_Philippi_(7272446610).jpg
• Photos of Amphipolis (artist rendering and map).http://www.amfipolis.com/amphipolis-history/
• Lion of Amphipolis (photo with people) – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anfipoli2.jpg
• Lion of Amphipolis (no people) – Photo by Berthold Werner. Used with permission. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lion_of_Amphipolis_BW_2017-
10-05_09-38-25.jpg
• “Amphipolis: The Kasta Tomb (3-D Reconstruction)” Video by Anastasios Papapostolou
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/12/14/amphipolis-tomb-animated-in-new-breathtaking-3d-video/ and https://youtu.be/Kgm9yxJQDTw
• Thessaloniki – 100 Resilient Cities
https://www.100resilientcities.org/cities/thessaloniki/
• Thessalonica (recent and ruins)
https://deanbibleministries.org/dbmfiles/slides/2013-1Thessalonians-002a.pdf
• Thessaloniki Milestone
https://www.livius.org/pictures/greece/thessaloniki/thessaloniki-museum-pieces/thessaloniki-via-egnatia-milestone/