Tempio di Atena - Temple d’Atenea - Temple of Athena / Paestum
Captura: Paestum, nel comune di Capaccio Paestum in provincia di Salerno, Italia.
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AT THE CENTRE OF THE NORTHERN SANCTUARY THE INHABITANTS OF POSEIDONIA BUILT THE TEMPLE OF ATHENA IN ABOUT 500 BC. TO THIS END, THEY MADE AN ARTIFICIAL EXTENSION TO THE SMALL HILL ON WHICH THE TEMPLE STANDS. THE BEDROCK, THE NATURAL PART OF THE LAND SURFACE OF PAESTUM, CAN BE SEEN IN THE EAST WHERE THE ALTAR IS SITUATED WHILE, TO THE WEST, THE TEMPLE LIES ON AN ARTIFICIAL TERRACE OF STONES. THE TEMPLE STANDS ON A PLINTH WITH THREE STEPS AND HAS A COLONNADE OF 6X13 DORIC COLUMNS WHICH ENCLOSES THE CELLA (THE INNER CHAMBER OF THE TEMPLE). THE CELLA LIES ABOUT 1 M ABOVE GROUND LEVEL AND CONTAINS THE CULT STATUE. IN FRONT OF THE CELLA THERE IS A VESTIBULE, PRECEDED BY A COLONNADE WITH IONIC CAPITALS. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BUILDING SEVERAL ORIGINAL SOLUTIONS: THE COMBINATION OF DORIC AND IONIC COLUMNS, THE SLIGHT, ELEGANT SWELLING OF THE COLUMNS, AND THE ARCHITRAVE DECORATED WITH MOULDINGS. THE TEMPLE SURVIVED INTO ROMAN PERIOD BUT DURING THE MIDDLE AGES BECAME THE ANNEX OF A FARMHOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PLAIN WHICH HAD BY THEN TURNED INTO MARSHLAND.
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Tempio di Atena - Temple d’Atenea - Temple of Athena / Paestum
Captura: Paestum, nel comune di Capaccio Paestum in provincia di Salerno, Italia.
ENGLISH
AT THE CENTRE OF THE NORTHERN SANCTUARY THE INHABITANTS OF POSEIDONIA BUILT THE TEMPLE OF ATHENA IN ABOUT 500 BC. TO THIS END, THEY MADE AN ARTIFICIAL EXTENSION TO THE SMALL HILL ON WHICH THE TEMPLE STANDS. THE BEDROCK, THE NATURAL PART OF THE LAND SURFACE OF PAESTUM, CAN BE SEEN IN THE EAST WHERE THE ALTAR IS SITUATED WHILE, TO THE WEST, THE TEMPLE LIES ON AN ARTIFICIAL TERRACE OF STONES. THE TEMPLE STANDS ON A PLINTH WITH THREE STEPS AND HAS A COLONNADE OF 6X13 DORIC COLUMNS WHICH ENCLOSES THE CELLA (THE INNER CHAMBER OF THE TEMPLE). THE CELLA LIES ABOUT 1 M ABOVE GROUND LEVEL AND CONTAINS THE CULT STATUE. IN FRONT OF THE CELLA THERE IS A VESTIBULE, PRECEDED BY A COLONNADE WITH IONIC CAPITALS. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BUILDING SEVERAL ORIGINAL SOLUTIONS: THE COMBINATION OF DORIC AND IONIC COLUMNS, THE SLIGHT, ELEGANT SWELLING OF THE COLUMNS, AND THE ARCHITRAVE DECORATED WITH MOULDINGS. THE TEMPLE SURVIVED INTO ROMAN PERIOD BUT DURING THE MIDDLE AGES BECAME THE ANNEX OF A FARMHOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PLAIN WHICH HAD BY THEN TURNED INTO MARSHLAND.
(Text copied from the same site)
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