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  2. Ancient Greek temple - Wikipedia

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    Greek temples (Ancient Greek: ... The pedimental triangle or tympanon on the narrow sides of the temple was created by the Doric introduction of the gabled roof, ...

  3. Pediment - Wikipedia

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    In ancient architecture, a wide and low triangular pediment (the side angles 12.5° to 16°) typically formed the top element of the portico of a Greek temple, a style continued in Roman temples. But large pediments were rare on other types of building before Renaissance architecture. [2]

  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. Pedimental sculpture - Wikipedia

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    The pediment begins in Ancient Greek architecture; according to the mid-fifth century BCE poet Pindar, it was a Corinthian invention. [4] It is possible that it was devised specifically to contain sculpture, which from the early 6th century became "customary (though never obligatory)" in Doric temples; in Ionic ones it was a "rarity". [5]

  6. 2,600-year-old temple filled with ‘exotic offerings’ found in ...

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    The temple was “larger than originally anticipated,” measuring about 100 feet, according to experts. ... See the ruins from ancient Greece. Cult center was destroyed 2,600 years ago in Greece ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. 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.