Temple of Apollo Didyma

Temple of Apollo Didyma

ca. 300 BCE-200 AD

1863

visual works

Turkey (nation)

Miletus (deserted settlement)

Hellenistic

temples (buildings)

drawings (visual works)

Apollo (Greek deity)

Drawing of the Temple of Apollo at Miletus in Turkey. "In plan, the temple presents a number of unusual features. It is a monumental, dipteral temple on a seven-stepped crepidoma, with decastyle facade and twenty-one columns along the flanks. The temple is oriented to the east; its pronaos is approached by a flight of fourteen steps between projecting low walls or wings. The temple has no opisthodomos; and its pronaos contains three rows of four columns each ... Following the destruction of the archaic temple in 494 B.C., there are no records of oracular pronouncements for ca. 160 years, although the site may have remained an active cult center. In ca. 331 B.C. the oracle was revived and the planning of the new Hellenistic temple was begun. The design of the Hellenistic temple is attributed by Vitruvius to Paionios of Ephesos and Daphnis of Miletus,"--Perseus Digital Library.

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