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Callicrates or Kallikrates (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ k r ə ˌ t iː z /; Greek: Καλλικράτης [Kaliˈkratis]) was an ancient Greek architect active in the middle of the fifth century BC. He and Ictinus were architects of the Parthenon (Plutarch, Pericles, 13). [1] An inscription identifies him as the architect of "the Temple of Nike" on the ...
Ictinus (/ ɪ k ˈ t aɪ n ə s /; Greek: Ἰκτῖνος, Iktinos) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. [1] [2] Ancient sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates as co-architects of the Parthenon. He co-wrote a book on the project – which is now lost – in collaboration with Carpion. [3]
The Parthenon had 46 outer columns and 23 inner columns in total, each column having 20 flutes. (A flute is the concave shaft carved into the column form.) The roof was covered with large overlapping marble tiles known as imbrices and tegulae. [66] [67] The Parthenon is regarded as the finest example of Greek architecture.
In Greek mythology, Ictinus (Ancient Greek: Ἴκτινος, romanized: Íktinos, lit. 'kite' [ 1 ] ) is a minor figure who tried to violate his daughter and was transformed into a bird, in part of an aetiological myth that attempts to explain the nature of trees and birds.
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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 ...
438 BC: Ictinus and Callicrates finish construction of the Parthenon, located on Athens' Acropolis. 435 BC: The Statue of Zeus at Olympia by Phidias, one of the seven wonders of the world, is completed. 434 BC: Conflict occurs between the Greek island of Kerkyra and its mother-city Corinth.
However, following the publication of "Attische Bauwerke:I, Theseion" in 1873 by Cornelius Gurlitt and Ernst Ziller, the presence of pedimental architecture on both pediments of the Parthenon has generally been accepted. [47] The west group B and C is very damaged because it remained on the Parthenon until 1977, as was the western female figure W.