COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia: Temple of Athena
Image View:
Archaic Temple of Athena Pronaia, view of the inner cella wall
Creator:
unknown (Greek (ancient))
Location:
site: Delphi, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece
Date:
ca. 370 BCE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Greek (ancient)
Style Period:
Classical
Work Type 1:
temple
Work Type 2:
gymnasium
Classification:
architecture
Material:
stone; marble
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; deities; mythology (Classical)
Description:
The third Temple of Athena, built ca. 370 BCE next to the Tholos, was non-peripteral and more severe. Together with the Doric Treasury of the Thebans and the Ionic peristyle in the gymnasium, it is among the first buildings to be made of the fine St. Elias limestone from Mt. Parnassos. Behind the six Doric columns of its façade the cella was closed only by three screens between two Ionic half-columns in antis. The latter's half-capitals were of a new type, with volutes on all three sides, as in the Temple of Apollo at Bassai. The cella's open, well-ventilated entrance and elongated plan suggest that it contained an altar, perhaps similar to that in the Hieron at Samothrace. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A3-G-D-11-D3
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia: Temple of Athena
