Temple of Artemis is an Archaic Greek temple in Corfu, Greece, built in around 580 BC in the ancient city of Korkyra (or Corcyra), now called Corfu....
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Chrysaor (category Children of Poseidon)
the blood of her decapitated body. In art, Chrysaor's earliest appearance seems to be on the great pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Corfu dated to the...
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architecture as early as 580 BC, in the archaic Temple of Artemis, Corfu, which was probably one of the first. Pediments return in Renaissance architecture...
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goddess Artemis: Temple of Artemis Amarynthia in Amarynthos in Euboea Temple of Artemis at Brauron, Attica Temple of Artemis in Corfu Temple of Artemis in...
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house the archaeological finds from the Temple of Artemis in Corfu. In 1994 it was expanded with the addition of two more exhibit halls that display the...
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was from the Temple of Artemis, Corfu, about 580–570 BCE. Large parts of the sculptural group are in the Archaeological Museum of Corfu, including the...
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Heine. The film describes the connection between the Corfu Gorgon at the Artemis Temple of Corfu and Kaiser Wilhelm II. Harrison concludes his 1992 film-poem...
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to the southeast of the Temple of Artemis in Corfu. Hera's Temple was built at the top of Analipsis Hill, and, because of its prominent location, it...
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Doric order (redirect from Doric temple)
the ancient Greek temples designed an entrance to the Botanical Gardens in Palermo. Ancient Greek, Archaic Temple of Artemis, Corfu, the earliest known...
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been involved in excavations at the site of the ancient temple of Artemis in Corfu. He also removed the statue of German poet Heinrich Heine which Empress...
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(1963), p. 128 (list of Ionic temples, with dates). Banister Fletcher (1963), pp. 129-31. Boardman et al. 1967, p. 42 "Temple of Artemis, Sardis". Sacred...
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oldest Doric temple entirely built of stone is represented by the early 6th century BC Artemis Temple in Kerkyra (modern Corfu). All parts of this building...
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Ancient Greek art (redirect from Art of Ancient Greece)
survive of the large triangular pediment groups from the Temple of Artemis, Corfu (c. 580), dominated by a huge Gorgon, and the Old Temple of Athena in...
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of Mon Repos, close to Kardaki Temple and to the northwest. It is approximately 700 m (2,300 ft) to the southeast of the Temple of Artemis in Corfu....
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Kardaki Temple is an Archaic Doric temple in Corfu, Greece, built around 500 BC in the ancient city of Korkyra (or Corcyra), in what is known today as...
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detail of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra, is made (approximate date). It is now at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu. The...
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now at The British Museum, London. (approximate date) The Temple of Artemis, Korkyra in Corfu begins to be built (approximate date). The Doric and Ionic...
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Hera (category Children of Cronus)
limestone. Corfu. The Archaic temple of Hera was built in 610BC. Large terracotta figures such as lions and gorgoneions decorated the roof of the temple. The...
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Dörpfeld on behalf of the German Archaeological Institute, started excavations at the Artemis Temple of Corfu. The Kaiser's activities in Corfu at the time involved...
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Gorgons (redirect from Head of Gorgon)
flanked in Mistress of Animals style by a pair of lions; pediment from the temple of Artemis in Corfu, Archaeological Museum of Corfu (early sixth century...
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Temple of Artemis Temple of Artemis, Corfu Temple of Artemis Amarynthia Temple of Artemis Ephesia Temple of Asclepius, Epidaurus Temple of Athena (Paestum)...
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Titanomachy (redirect from War of the Titans)
with the help of Athena, Apollo, and Artemis, cast them headlong into Tartarus. On Atlas, who had been their leader, he put the vault of the sky; even...
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Ancient Greek architecture (redirect from Architecture of Greece)
fragments of a Gorgon flanked by heraldic panthers from the centre of the pediment of the Artemis Temple of Corfu. A metope from a temple known as "Temple C"...
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Emain Macha. c. 600 BC—580 BC—Construction begins on the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra (Corfu). c. 600 BC—Construction begins on the largest mound at Cahokia...
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Nike (mythology) (redirect from Greek goddess of victory)
dashing sideways into view. The statue of Nike from the Temple of Neptune at Corfu also implies a gentle appearance out of nothing rather than a hurtling from...
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of Corinth (8th century BC), a semi-legendary bard of the Bacchiad ruling family in archaic Corinth, who was treasured as the traditional composer of...
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Serpent symbolism (section Nagas of Indochina)
of the caduceus. The Gorgon was placed at the center, highest point of one of the pediments on the Temple of Artemis at Corfu. Asclepius, the son of Apollo...
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Karyes (redirect from Temple of Artemis, Karyes)
this dance was also called a caryatid. Pausanias also mentions a temple of Artemis located in Karyes and says that she was sacred in this area. Roman...
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vestige of the earliest Greek protective deity that often was featured atop temples of later eras. The western pediment from the Artemis Temple of Corfu is...
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Castle[dubious – discuss] Jarash: the Temple of Artemis was reused as a castle by the Damascenes and destroyed by Baldwin II of Jerusalem, was therefore not used...
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