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  2. Ancient Greek temple - Wikipedia

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    Greek temples (Ancient Greek: ... The temple's width to height up to the geison is determined by the reverse proportion 9:4, the same proportion squared, ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Ancient Greek architecture - Wikipedia

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    Most ancient Greek temples were rectangular, and were approximately twice as long as they were wide, with some notable exceptions such as the enormous Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens with a length of nearly 2 1 ⁄ 2 times its width. A number of surviving temple-like structures are circular, and are referred to as tholos. [35]

  5. Temple of Aphaia - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Aphaia (Greek: Ναός Αφαίας) or Afea [1] is an Ancient Greek temple located within a sanctuary complex dedicated to the goddess Aphaia on the island of Aegina, which lies in the Saronic Gulf. Formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, the Doric temple is now recognized as having been dedicated to the mother ...

  6. Temple of Zeus, Cyrene - Wikipedia

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    The reconstructed temple of Zeus, seen from the southwest. The structure was built as a Doric octastyle peripteral temple. It faced east and stood atop a three-stepped crepidoma, with a length of 68.3 metres (224 ft) and a width of 30.4 metres (100 ft), [2] making it roughly the same size as the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and the Parthenon at Athens. [1]

  7. Archaeologists Just Discovered An Ancient Greek Temple Filled ...

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    Notable for its 100-foot length, symbolic of the hundred-meter temples of this period in ancient Greece, the find was fully uncovered in 2023 and features exterior walls and an arch on the west side.

  8. Parthenon - Wikipedia

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    The Parthenon (/ ˈ p ɑːr θ ə ˌ n ɒ n,-n ən /; Ancient Greek: Παρθενών, romanized: Parthenōn [par.tʰe.nɔ̌ːn]; Greek: Παρθενώνας, romanized: Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple [6] [7] on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena.

  9. Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens - Wikipedia

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    During the Roman period, the temple, which included 104 colossal columns, was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world. The temple's glory was short-lived, as it fell into disuse after being pillaged during a barbarian invasion in 267 AD, just about a century after its completion ...