Greek temples (Ancient Greek: ναός, romanized: nāós, lit. 'dwelling', semantically distinct from Latin templum, "temple") were structures built to house...
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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...
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Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and...
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The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the...
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in Greece were in some way related to the Greek Goddess Aphrodite and the Greek city of Corinth. In ancient times women’s bodies were viewed as more sexually...
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The Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion (also "Hephesteum" or "Hephaesteum"; Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστεῖον, Greek: Ναός Ηφαίστου, and formerly called in error...
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The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον; Turkish: Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to...
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The Temple of Olympian Zeus (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός, Naós tou Olympíou Diós), also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian...
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periods of ancient Greek history. References to Delphi, the sanctuary, the temple, and the prophecies of the Pythia are made throughout ancient Greek mythology...
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of the temple in Greek architecture, while in Rome, the cella was in the back. Greek temple architecture had a profound influence on ancient architectural...
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Olympia (Modern Greek: Ολυμπία [oli(m)ˈbi.a]; Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπία [olympí.aː]), officially Archaia Olympia (Greek: Αρχαία Ολυμπία lit. 'Ancient Olympia')...
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ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting...
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Ancient Roman temples were among the most important buildings in Roman culture, and some of the richest buildings in Roman architecture, though only a...
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The ancient Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta Olympia), or the ancient Olympics, were a series of athletic competitions among representatives...
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ancient cultures has been questioned as anachronistic. The ancient Greeks did not have a word for 'religion' in the modern sense. Likewise, no Greek writer...
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The Temple of Concordia (Italian: Tempio della Concordia, Greek: Ναός της Ομονοιας) is an ancient Greek temple of Magna Graecia in the Valle dei Templi...
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The Temple of Poseidon is an ancient Greek temple on Cape Sounion, Greece, dedicated to the god Poseidon. There is evidence of the establishment of sanctuaries...
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forms. List of Ancient Greek temples Architecture of Ancient Greece Art of Ancient Greece Classical architecture Classical sculpture Greek architecture...
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Ancient Greek playwrights Ancient Greek poets Ancient Greek temples Ancient Greek theatres Ancient Greek tribes Ancient Greek tyrants Ancient Greeks Kings...
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The Temple of Aphaia (Greek: Ναός Αφαίας) or Afea is an Ancient Greek temple located within a sanctuary complex dedicated to the goddess Aphaia on the...
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Sparta (redirect from Greek Spartan)
military land-power in ancient Greece. Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the leading force of the unified Greek military during the...
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Record-holding roofs in antiquity Ancient Greek architecture Ancient Roman architecture List of Ancient Greek temples Hodge 1960, p. 41 Ulrich 2007, pp...
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Doric order (redirect from Greek Doric)
Ancient Greek Doric columns of the Tholos of Delphi, Greece, c.375 BC Ancient Greek Doric columns of the Temple of Zeus, Nemea, Greece, c.330 BC Ancient Greek...
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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
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The Temple of Hera, or Heraion, is an ancient Archaic Greek temple at Olympia, Greece, that was dedicated to Hera, queen of the Greek gods: 195–197 ....
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Greece. Essentially an ancient Greek people, they gradually expanded from their homeland along the Haliacmon valley on the northern edge of the Greek...
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Bassae (redirect from Temple of Apollo at Bassae)
is one of the most studied ancient Greek temples because of its multitude of unusual features. Bassae was the first Greek site to be inscribed on the...
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The Temple of Apollo (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἀπολλώνιον Apollonion) is one of the most important ancient Greek monuments of Magna Graecia on Ortygia, in front...
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himself has never looked upon its equal outside Olympus. — Greek Anthology IX.58 Another ancient writer, who, perhaps dubiously, identified himself as Philo...
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Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which...
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