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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greeceen_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 599 BCE-138 CE (inclusive)en_US
dc.creatorCossutiusen_US
dc.date-599-138en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-27T15:38:30Z
dc.date.available2013-03-27T15:38:30Z
dc.date.issued-599-138en_US
dc.identifier202606en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1235en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/110561
dc.descriptionContext view, from the Acropolis, depicting the site of the temple to the southeast of the Acropolis; This is the most conspicuous monument in the south-east part of ancient Athens. A massive temple originally laid out in the late 6th century BCE by the Peisistratid tyrants on the remains of an earlier monumental structure, the building was in the Doric order and was planned on the scale of the great temples of Sicily and Asia Minor. All construction ceased with the downfall of the tyrants. Building only resumed under Antiochos IV Epiphanes of Syria (175-163 BCE), who identified himself with Zeus. He employed the Roman architect Cossutius (considered the first known Roman architect), and the new building was a giant octastyle dipteral Corinthian temple (110 x 43 m) with triple colonnades on its east and west fronts, making a total of 104 Pentelic marble columns. It was left unfinished and only finally completed 300 years later by the Emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138 CE). Only 15 of the original 104 columns remain standing. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/15/2008)en_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectdeitiesen_US
dc.subjectmythology (Classical)en_US
dc.subjectRoman Empireen_US
dc.subjectArchaic (Greek)en_US
dc.subjectImperial (Roman)en_US
dc.titleTemple of Olympian Zeusen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A3-G-TZ-A1en_US
vra.culturalContextGreek (ancient) Ancient Romanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypetempleen_US
dc.contributor.displayCossutius (Ancient Roman architect, active ca. 170 BCE)en_US


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