Peripteros with part of cella
Selinunte (Selinous and Selinus in ancient times) was an ancient Greek city on the south-western coast of Sicily.
It was destroyed during the First Punic War about 250 BC and never rebuilt. The utter destruction of every building, scarcely a single column being left upright, could also have been due to earthquakes.
The majority of the temples are distinguished by letters as their dedications are still under discussion.
This one is Temple E, 490-480 BC, also called the Temple of Hera, however, some scholars argue that it must have been dedicated to Aphrodite.
"It is the best conserved of the temples of Selinus but its present appearance is the result of anastylosis (reconstruction using original material) performed —controversially — in 1957 (or 1959).
The peripteral temple belongs to the period of transition from the archaic to the classical period. It has a peristyle 25.33 wide x 67.82 metres long with six columns at the front (hexastyle) and fifteen on the long sides. The columns are each 10.19 metres high with numerous traces of the stucco which originally covered them."
Selinunte, Sicily. 2018
Peripteros with part of cella
Selinunte (Selinous and Selinus in ancient times) was an ancient Greek city on the south-western coast of Sicily.
It was destroyed during the First Punic War about 250 BC and never rebuilt. The utter destruction of every building, scarcely a single column being left upright, could also have been due to earthquakes.
The majority of the temples are distinguished by letters as their dedications are still under discussion.
This one is Temple E, 490-480 BC, also called the Temple of Hera, however, some scholars argue that it must have been dedicated to Aphrodite.
"It is the best conserved of the temples of Selinus but its present appearance is the result of anastylosis (reconstruction using original material) performed —controversially — in 1957 (or 1959).
The peripteral temple belongs to the period of transition from the archaic to the classical period. It has a peristyle 25.33 wide x 67.82 metres long with six columns at the front (hexastyle) and fifteen on the long sides. The columns are each 10.19 metres high with numerous traces of the stucco which originally covered them."
Selinunte, Sicily. 2018