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Temple at Didyma
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Temple at Didyma
Examines ancient Greek sanctuary of Apollo as representative of culture's architecture, art, society, gods and history.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) |
8 sources |
1997
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"The sanctuary of Apollo at Didyma provides an excellent example of an ancient sacred spot on which successive centers of worship were built and rebuilt for centuries. The sanctuary is located approximately ten miles south of the town of Miletus on the Milesian promontory that juts out of the Aegean coast of what is now Turkey. The Didyma site was probably considered sacred prior to the Greeks' first building there (around 700 BC) and even today the local mosque, formerly a Greek Orthodox church, is located near the sanctuary site (Tomlinson 132). The most significant architectural undertakings at the spot were the Archaic Greek temple of Apollo built around 540-520 BC, but destroyed by the Persians in 494, and the Hellenistic temple of Apollo begun in the third century BC but remaining incomplete when work was finally abandoned over three centuries later in the.."More papers on Temple at Didyma:
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"Temple at Didyma" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Temple-at-Didyma/13053>
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