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The Temple of Hercules Gaditanus, Temple of Melqart or Temple of Hercules-Melqart was a place of worship in Antiquity in the southern outskirts of Gadir-Gades (current-day Cádiz) perhaps dating as early as the 8th century BC.
Temple of Hercules (Amman), the Roman temple in the citadel of Amman, Jordan, containing remnants of a monumental sculpture; Temple of Heracles, Agrigento, in old Akragas in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy; Temple of Hercules Custos, a lost temple to Hercules the Guardian; Temple of Hercules Musarum, a lost temple in Rome to Hercules of the Muses ...
Lost buildings and structures. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. Lost castles (7 P) H. ... Temple of Hercules Gaditanus
The Temple of Heracles or Temple of Hercules (the Roman name of the hero) is an ancient Greek temple of Magna Graecia in the ancient city of Akragas, located in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento, Italy. [1] The building, in the archaic Doric style, is found on what is known as the hill of the temples, on a rocky spur near Villa Aurea.
Temple of Hercules Victor This page was last edited on 18 February 2024, at 16:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
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 ...
Since there has been a one-to-one association between Heracles and Melqart since Herodotus, the "Pillars of Melqart" in the temple near Gades/Gádeira (modern Cádiz) have sometimes been considered to be the true Pillars of Hercules. [3] Plato placed the legendary island of Atlantis beyond the "Pillars of Hercules". [4]
View over sanctuary from Villa D´Este Temple of Hercules Victor. The Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (Italian: Ercole Vincitore) in Tivoli (Italy) was one of the major complexes of the Roman Republican era built on the wave of the Hellenistic cultural influence after the final Roman conquest of Greece (146 BC). [1]