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A geolocation audio companion for Greece
An expert whispering in your ear,
at exactly the right place.
Peripatos places a globally respected scholar in your headphones — chapter by chapter, GPS by GPS — as you walk the ancient sites of Greece.
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The first three companions.
Each companion is signed by a named scholar. Long-form. Sound-designed. Route-aware. Silent until you're standing at the right place.
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Presented by
Angelos Chaniotis
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Historian of Hellenistic Greece.
Peloponnese · Nemea
The Sanctuary of Zeus & the Games
A one-hour walk through the fourth-century BC sanctuary and stadium — the site of the Nemean Games, the crown of wild celery, and the quiet story of how a small polis outlasted its own violence.
62minTotal runtime
8Chapters
1.4kmWalking distance
EasyTerrain
Chapters
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01
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The Three Columns
Temple of Zeus · 8 min
- 02Locked
Under the Floor
The buried surface · 6 min
- 03Locked
The Tunnel
Athletes' entrance · 7 min
- 04Locked
The Stadium
Where the runners stood · 9 min
- 05Locked
The Xenon
Ancient guest-house · 6 min
- 06Locked
The Bath & the Body
Ritual before contest · 8 min
- 07Locked
The Museum
Objects the ground gave back · 10 min
- 08Locked
Crown of Celery
Coda · 8 min
Downloads for offline use. Plays without cellular reception. Localised in English, Greek, French, German. All fees to Ministry of Culture, ODAP and Ephorate of Corinthia paid; recorded on-site under Permit №[pending].
The Companion
Chapter 1 · The Three Columns
This is the geolocation experience. Press "Simulate arrival" to see how a chapter unlocks when you walk into the geofence at the Temple of Zeus.
Waiting
Distance to Chapter 1: 142m
The Idea
Every visitor to the Acropolis, Delphi, Mycenae, or Olympia has the same silent problem: they are standing on the exact ground where the world was made and they cannot see it.
A book is too abstract. A tour guide is too rushed, too crowded, often incorrect. Wikipedia has no soul.
Peripatos puts a globally respected scholar in your ear, at your pace, at the right moment — with sound design that layers agora crowds, waves against Piraeus, or the crackle of a Panathenaic torch when the narration calls for it.
It is the difference between visiting a monument and being visited by it.
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Named scholars, not anonymous audioguides.
Every companion is signed. Chaniotis, Beaton, Hughes, Stampolidis, Cartledge — and a new generation of Greek scholars in equal measure.
02
Written to the place, not from a script.
Each presenter walks the site with us first. The final script references what your feet and eyes are doing right now.
03
Sound-designed like a documentary.
Foley, ambient field recordings, and an original score composed to each chapter's emotional arc. Never gimmicky, always story-serving.
04
Silent until you're standing right.
No auto-play. No push notifications shouting through the sanctuary. The default state is silence.