The Archaeological Museum of Delos

Start with the archaic hall, where kouroi and a sphinx of the 7th and 6th centuries BC stand on their plinths, and look for the base of a kouros inscribed 'Euthykartides the Naxian made me and dedicated me', among the earliest sculptor's signatures in Greece. Then come the lions, out of the wind at last, and a delicate group of Boreas, the north wind, carrying off the Athenian princess Oreithyia, which once crowned the Temple of the Athenians.

From the Artemision comes the oldest treasure on the island: an ivory plaque of 1400–1200 BC carved with a warrior wearing a helmet of boar's tusks, the kind Homer describes in the Iliad. Not everything from Delos is here, though: some of its finest statues went to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, among them the Diadoumenos, a marble copy of Polykleitos' athlete binding his hair, and the playful group of Aphrodite raising a sandal at Pan, found in the clubhouse of the merchants of Berytos.