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First temple of Hera, c. 550 BCE Second temple of Hera, c. 450 BCE Temple of Hera II at night The first Temple of Hera , built around 550 BCE by the Greek colonists, is the oldest surviving temple in Paestum and the one farthest south. 18th-century archaeologists named it "the Basilica" because some mistakenly believed it to be a Roman building.
The First Temple of Hera (Paestum)—also known as Temple of Hera I and the Basilica—is an archaic Doric order Greek temple in the ruins of the ancient city of Paestum, Italy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This Doric temple is considered one of the oldest Greek temples in Italy and is known for its distinctive architectural features.
The Temple of Hera II (also erroneously called the Temple of Neptune or of Poseidon), is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia in Paestum, Campania, Italy.It was built in the Doric order around 460–450 BC, just north of the first Hera Temple of around 550–525 BC.
A large portion of these votives are on display at the site of the sanctuary in the Museo Narrante del Santuario di Hera alla Foce del Sele, located in a reconstructed farm house (the masseria Procuriali). A first deposit was found near the temple and was made up of five ditches lined by stone slabs and covered with stone as well.
Clockwise from top left: Second Temple of Hera in Poseidonia, Campania; Doric-styled temple, Segesta, Sicily; Taras' sculpture of a young man wearing cucullus and leading his donkey, Louvre; depiction of Eos riding a two-horsed chariot, on a krater from Southern Italy, Staatliche Antikensammlungen.
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 National Archaeological Museum of Paestum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Paestum) is a museum in Capaccio-Paestum (Salerno, southern Italy) that houses archaeological finds from excavations of the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia/Paistom, then Paestum. The museum is one of the major "on-site" museums in Italy.. [1]
The structure is simpler than the two temples of Hera nearby, the first Temple of Hera, which is much larger than it, [2] and the Second Temple of Hera. The interior of the wide pronaos contained six columns in the Ionic style (four frontal and two on each side), of which the bases and two capitals remain. [3] These capitals burst from an ...