Hephaisteion (Temple of Hephaestus): Eastern and Southern View (Athens, Greece)
Hephaisteion (Athens, Greece)
Hephaestus (Greek deity)
Ancient Greek religion
Temples, Greek--Greece
Attikē (Greece)
Classical Greece
Agora (Athens, Greece)
Athens (Greece)
Pericles
This photograph depicts the eastern and southern sides of the great temple dedicated to the god of craft and metalworking, Hephaestus. Located just above the Athenian agora, above the location where skilled craftsman practiced their trades, the Hephaisteion, built by the great statesman Pericles from 449 BCE to 415 BCE, is the best preserved, most complete temple from Classical Greece.
Proctor, Christopher
30-May-2007
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Attikē (Greece)
449 BCE - 415 BCE
Temple of Poseidon: Western View (Sounion, Greece)
Temple of Poseidon (Soúnio Cape, Greece)
Soúnio Cape (Greece)
Ancient Greek religion
Temples, Greek--Greece
Poseidon (Greek deity)
Classical Greece
This photograph captures the western view of the great temple dedicated to the god of the seas, Poseidon. Built between 444 BCE and 440 BCE, this temple located at Cape Sounion proved to be one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in the ancient world. As navel-centered power, the Greeks held Poseidon in high esteem, and travelers to this shrine would make sacrifices dedicated to the god in return for safe voyages across the seas.
Proctor, Christopher
25-May-2007
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Attikē (Greece)
444 BCE - 440 BCE
Temple of Poseidon: Southern View (Sounion, Greece)
Temple of Poseidon (Soúnio Cape, Greece)
Soúnio Cape (Greece)
Ancient Greek religion
Temples, Greek--Greece
Poseidon (Greek deity)
Classical Greece
This photograph captures the southern view of the great temple dedicated to the god of the seas, Poseidon. Built between 444 BCE and 440 BCE, this temple located at Cape Sounion proved to be one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in the ancient world. As navel-centered power, the Greeks held Poseidon in high esteem, and travelers to this shrine would make sacrifices dedicated to the god in return for safe voyages across the seas.
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25-May-2007
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Attikē (Greece)
444 BCE - 440 BCE
Ploutonion: Temple of Hades (Eleusis, Greece)
Persephone and Hades
Eleusinian mysteries
Ancient Greek religion
Temples, Greek--Greece
Hades (Greek deity)
Classical Greece
Homeric hymn to Demeter
This photograph shows the ruins of the Ploutonion, a temple dedicated to the god of the underworld, Hades. Classical beliefs prevented the Greeks from referring to Hades by his proper name, so the alias, "Pluto," meaning "Wealth," was used in its stead. The temple was built into the recesses of the cave where it was believed Persephone descended to and ascended from the underworld every year. In this sense, this small cave at Eleusis was believed to be the entrance to the underworld.
Proctor, Christopher
03-June-2007
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Attikē (Greece)
1500 BCE – 396 CE
Kallichoron: Well of Demeter (Eleusis, Greece)
Sanctuary of Demeter (Eleusis, Greece)
Eleusinian mysteries
Ancient Greek religion
Homeric hymn to Demeter
Demeter (Greek deity)
Persephone (Greek deity)
Hades (Greek deity)
Classical Greece
This photograph depicts the Kallichoron, or, the Well Around Which to Dance. According to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, this well, located in Eleusis, Greece, is the spot where Demeter stopped to rest and weep after the abduction of her daughter, Persephone, by the god of the underworld, Hades. During the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the most important and popular mystery cults from the Greco-Roman world, initiates would dance around this well in honor of the goddesses, ultimately giving it its name.
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03-June-2007
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1500 BCE – 396 CE