Talk:Hekatompedon temple

Merge with Old Temple of Athena
Unfortunately, User:Marcok didn't notice that the two buildings are different. Read here from Acropolis of Athens:


 * A temple to Athena Polias (protectress of the city) was erected around 570–550 BC. This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the Hekatompedon (Greek for "hundred–footed"), Ur-Parthenon (German for "original Parthenon" or "primitive Parthenon"), H–Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue. Whether this temple replaced an older one, or just a sacred precinct or altar, is not known. Probably, the Hekatompedon was built where the Parthenon now stands.[15]


 * Between 529–520 BC yet another temple was built by the Peisistratids, the Old Temple of Athena, usually referred to as the Arkhaios Neōs (ἀρχαῖος νεώς, "ancient temple"). This temple of Athena Polias was built upon the Doerpfeld foundations,[16] between the Erechtheion and the still-standing Parthenon. Arkhaios Neōs was destroyed by the Persian invasion in 480 BC. However, the temple was probably reconstructed since in 454 BC the treasury of the Delian League was transferred in its opisthodomos. The temple may have been burnt down in 406/405 BC as Xenophon mentions that the old temple of Athena was set on fire. Pausanias does not mention it in his 2nd century AD Description of Greece.[17]

That is, Hekatompedon was built around 570 BC and the Old Temple of Athena around 520 BC. From both temples there have been found sculptures that are displayed separately at the Acropolis Museum. Dimboukas (talk) 22:22, 13 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you. However de:Hekatompedon says that the Hekatompedon on the Acropolis was the Old Temple of Athena. --Marcok (talk) 18:42, 14 November 2014 (UTC)