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  2. Crepidoma - Wikipedia

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    The step-like arrangement of the crepidoma may extend around all four sides of a structure like a temple, for example, on the Parthenon. On some temples, the steps extend only across the front façade, or they may wrap around the sides for a short distance, a detail that is called a return, as seen at the Sanctuary of Despoina at Lycosoura.

  3. Straw painting - Wikipedia

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    As early as in Eastern Han dynasty, wheat straw painting was made for worship practices in the royal court as wheat was considered an auspicious grass to pray for good fortune. [3] [4] The craft disappeared with time as a result of social unrest and historical changes and only officially returned during the Sui and Tang dynasties. [4]

  4. List of Ancient Greek temples - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...

  5. File:Greek temples.svg - Wikipedia

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    Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 07:14, 27 August 2009: 744 × 620 (250 KB): AnonMoos: slightly simplifying code, trimming bottom margin : 23:59, 26 August 2009

  6. Spintharus of Corinth - Wikipedia

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    Ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Spintharus of Corinth (Ancient Greek: Σπίνθαρος, romanized: Spíntharos) was an ancient Greek architect. Pausanias reported in his Description of Greece that the Alcmaeonids hired him to build a temple at Delphi. [a] This is the only record of Spintharus. [1]

  7. Naiskos - Wikipedia

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    The form of the naiskos suggests a religious context, relating especially to Greek funerary culture. Some of the Hellenistic inscriptions found in the Bay of Grama are placed inside a naiskos , and in this case the religious context is an invocation of Castor and Pollux (Dioskouroi) for a safe passage across the Adriatic , rather than funerary.

  8. Architectural mythology - Wikipedia

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    With the greek god of architecture being Hephaestus (fire, metalworking, craftsmen, sculpture, metallurgy and volcanoes) and the greek goddess associated with architecture being Hestia (architecture, the hearth, and domesticity). The role temples are intended for worship to celebrate their god and receive comfort.

  9. Delphinion - Wikipedia

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    A rectangular temenos, the remains of the temple at the site date back to as early as the fifth century B.C.E. Still present are a rectangular altar with volute acroteria, as well as a few other round marble altars. An "annual Spring procession which went from Miletus to the Temple of Apollo at Didyma began at the Delphinion". [1]

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