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The dimensions of the temple are 13.71 m north to south and 31.78 m east to west, with six columns on the short east and west sides and thirteen columns along the longer north and south sides (with each of the four corner columns being counted twice).
A classic statement of the Greek Doric order is the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, built ... Shrewsbury, England, 1814, 133 feet 6 inches (40.69 m) high; Neue ...
Temple C at Thermos is the first of the hekatompedoi, temples with a length of 100 feet (30 m). Since it was not technically possible to roof broad spaces at that time, these temples remained very narrow, at 6 to 10 metres in width.
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 ...
View of the ancient agora. The temple of Hephaestus is to the left and the Stoa of Attalos to the right.. The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Agoraios Kolonos, also called Market ...
I–IX Town gates, 1 Temple of Hephaestus, 2 Kolymbéthra, 3 Sanctuary of the chthonic gods with Temple of the Dioscuri and Temple L, 4 Temple of Olympian Zeus, 5 Tomb of Theron and Hellenistic-roman nekropolis, 6 Temple of Asclepius, 7 Temple of Hercules, 8 Temple of Concordia and Early christian nekropolis, 9 Temple of "Hera", 10 Basilicula, 11 Rock sanctuary of Demeter, 12 Temple of Demeter ...
The style and dimensions are particularly similar to the Temple of Hephaestus, the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, and the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous. Dinsmoor proposed that all four temples were the work of the same architect, nicknamed the "Theseum architect", who operated between 449 and 432 BC and probably built this temple between ca ...
Limited. The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (Egyptian: Ḏsr-ḏsrw meaning "Holy of Holies") is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. [b] Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture.