Ancient Greece Buildings

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“Valley of the temples”, Agrigento, Italy.

The “Valley of the temples” is an archaeological site in Sicily (Italy): there are important Doric temples of the Hellenistic period.

Hellenistic period: from the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) until the battle of Actium (31 BC).

The battle of Actium was a naval battle that ended the civil war between Octavian and Mark Antony. Mark Antony was allied with the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt.

Ancient ruins Sculpture from Delos, Greece. Tiny island where Apollo and Artemis were born. [1116x1500]

Templo de Isis, altar y estatua en la celda. Delos, Grecia

Los cultos a dioses foráneos fue una práctica común tanto en Grecia como en Roma, especialmente el de Isis, representada con aspecto helénico o romanizada.

The Temple of Zeus in the archaeological site of Olympus, Greece, once housed a colossal 12-meter gold-and-ivory image of Zeus by Athenian sculptor Pheidias. The statue (435 BC) was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Acropolis of Lindos Rhodes island Greece.

taken from the west side of the erechtheion

A girl in Corinth with her goat at Apollo’s temple, Greece, ca. 1956 - photographer unknown

Temple of Apollo, Didyma, Turkey | go__aydin

View from the Treasury of Athens at Delphi, Greece

Dimitris Harissiadis

Αθήνα 1955. Η αρχαία Αγορά και η Ακρόπολη από το δρόμο του Αστεροσκοπείου.

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Hieron at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods (Samothrace, Greece)