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    The Temple of Athena is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia found at Paestum, in Capaccio Paestum, a comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region...
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    ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples in the Doric order dating from about 550 to 450 BC that are in an excellent state of preservation...
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  • The Temple of Athena is the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis in Greece. Temple of Athena may also refer to: Temple of Athena (Paestum) Temple of Athena...
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    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....
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    the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Agrigento, the Temple of Apollo (Syracuse), the Temple of Athena (Syracuse), the Temple of Athena (Paestum), the Temple C (Selinus)...
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    of their colonies. For example, there are two examples of temples with uneven column numbers at the front, Temple of Hera I at Paestum and Temple of Apollo...
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    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...
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    village, or gaining authority from one of the many sanctuaries. Pausanias notes that the priest of the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea was a boy, who held office...
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    front of the Temple of Athena, Paestum, unknown architect, c.500 BC One of the few sections of the sculpture of the Ancient Greek pediment of the Parthenon...
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    Hera (category Children of Cronus)
    preceded Paestum," Sarantis Symeonoglou suggested (Symeonoglou, "The Doric Temples of Paestum" Journal of Aesthetic Education, 19.1, Special Issue: Paestum and...
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    Poseidon (redirect from God Of The Seas)
    in the temple of Poseidon at Taranto and the second temple of Hera at Paestum (traditionally named temple of Poseidon). In the earlier temples where the...
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  • Achaemenid Empire, begins. 500: Temple of Athena (Paestum) in Campania constructed. The Magadha imperial capital of Pataliputra (modern day Patna) in the...
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  • The National Archaeological Museum of Paestum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Paestum) is a museum in Capaccio-Paestum (Salerno, southern Italy) that houses...
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    Age of Pericles 450–430 BCE. Some well-known examples of classical Doric hexastyle Greek temples: The group at Paestum comprising the Temple of Hera...
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    cycle of rebirth and renewal. Some scholars theorize that one of the Temples of Hera at Paestum may have been dedicated to Hera and Hebe rather than to Hera...
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    olive tree and named the city after Athena. (Later the Southern Italian city of Paestum was founded under the name of Poseidonia at about 600 BC.) A sacred...
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    the Etruscan cemeteries, but also (more controversially) the Greek temples of Paestum were taken to be Etruscan, or otherwise Italic, until the late 18th...
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    Velia (category Frazioni of the Province of Salerno)
    discovery of the archaic temple of Athena on the acropolis of Velia. The oldest temple dates to 540-530 BC, the years following the battle of Alalia. Two well-preserved...
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    visible monuments include: Temple of Diana Capitoline temple of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva Temple of Isis Temple of Demeter Temple of Apollo The Acropolis Arco...
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  • Temple of Artemis, Corfu Temple of Artemis Amarynthia Temple of Artemis Ephesia Temple of Asclepius, Epidaurus Temple of Athena (Paestum) Temple of Athena...
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    oboe (aulos) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life. In antiquity...
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    rate of decrease of diameter. The Parthenon, the Temple to the Goddess Athena on the Acropolis in Athens, is referred to by many as the pinnacle of ancient...
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    Eleusinion (category Temples of Demeter)
    amphiprostyle temple, i.e. with four Ionic columns at the north and south ends. This is the same design used for the later Temple of Athena Nike on the...
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  • Pinewood Studios, United Kingdom, with locations including Cornwall, UK, and Paestum, Italy. The karst area in El Torcal de Antequera, Spain appears in the...
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    Symposium (category Culture of ancient Greece)
    or symposio, from συμπίνειν, sympínein, "to drink together") was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied...
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    wide trussed roofs spanning the rectangular spaces of monumental public buildings such as temples, basilicas, and later churches. Such spans were thrice...
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    Quadriga (category History of sculpture)
    frieze of the Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga, which dates to the 2nd century BC. Helios in his chariot, early 4th century BC, Athena's temple, Ilion...
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  • ancient Oscan city of Campania, located 20km directly north of Naples. The ruins of the city walls, private houses, the so-called garden of Virgil and many...
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    mouth of the Sele, near Paestum, Magna Graecia, is a chapel devoted to the Madonna del Granato, "Our Lady of the Pomegranate", "who by virtue of her epithet...
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    San Marco. The temple of Athena was brought to light in 1984 in the Privati area, on the banks of the Rivo Calcarella, over an area of about 200 square...
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