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[19] [20] Although new temples to Greek deities still continued to be constructed, e.g. the Tychaion at Selge [21] [22] they tend to follow the canonical forms of the developing Roman imperial style of architecture [23] or to maintain local non-Greek idiosyncrasies, like the temples in Petra [24] or Palmyra. [25]
It appears that the Kapnikarea church may have originally been the katholikon of a monastery. Presently, the building is formed by a complex of three different units attached together; these units were built in succession: a) the largest south church dedicated to the Presentation of Mary to the Temple, b) the chapel of St Barbara on the northern side; and c) the exonarthex with the propylon to ...
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 ...
The Tholos of Delphi in August 2007. The Tholos of Delphi is among the ancient structures of the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia in Delphi.The circular temple, a tholos, shares the immediate site with other ancient foundations of the Temple of Athena Pronaia, all located less than a mile east of the main ruins at Delphi, in the modern Greek regional unit of Phocis.
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In ancient Greek and Roman temples, the cella was a room at the center of the building, usually containing a cult image or statue representing the particular deity venerated in the temple. In addition, the cella might contain a table to receive supplementary votive offerings , such as votive statues of associated deities, precious and semi ...
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The name Theseion or Temple of Theseus was attributed to the monument in modern times under the mistaken assumption that it housed the remains of the Athenian hero Theseus, brought back to the city from the island of Skyros by Kimon in 475 BCE, but refuted after inscriptions from within the temple associated it firmly with Hephaestus.