Temple of Hera

Temple of Hera

510-460 BCE

1892

plans (orthographic projections)

Greece (nation)

Sámos (inhabited place)

Archaic (Greek)

site plans

temples (buildings)

Hera (Greek deity)

Site plan for the Temple of Hera at Samos, showing all 4 periods. "A dipteral (double colonnade) temple with a 3rd row of columns at front and back (3 rows of 8 along front and 3 rows of 9 along back). Ionic order. Pronaos and cella divided into 3 aisles by two rows of columns. Steps at front added in Roman period ... Construction lasted over a century and possibly never completed. Built as part of the tyrant Polykrates' building campaign over the earlier dipteral temple of architects Rhoikos and Theodoros. Stood in ruins by 170 A.D.,"--Perseus Digital Library.

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