Category: Art & Architecture

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  Temple of Hephaestus

  Ἡφαιστεῖον. Also transliterated as: Hephaisteion, Hephaesteion The temple of Hephestus (or Thesion) crowns a low hill in the Northwest end of…

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  Temple of Poseidon at Sounion

  Archaeological evidence indicates that Sounion was a sacred area as far back as the Bronze Age, but the temple visible in our day…

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  Treasury of Atreus

  The tholos tomb at Mycenae known as “Treasury of Atreus”, built between 1350 and 1250 BCE, is the largest, best preserved,…

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  Treasury of the Athenians

  The Athenian Treasury was a votive building in the form of a reduced scale temple, designed to hold the multitude of…

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