Erechtheum

Erechtheum

421-405 BCE

1790

Single Built Works

Greece (nation)

Athens (inhabited place)

Classical

temples (buildings)

Ionic order

View of the Erechtheum, a temple at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, with the Porch of the Maidens in background. "The Erechteum was completed in 406 BC. It has a prostasis on the east side, a monumental propylon on the north and the famous porch of the Caryatids on the south. The main temple was divided into two sections, dedicated to the worship of the two principal gods of Attica, Athena and Poseidon Erechteus. A relief frieze, bearing the representation possibly of the birth of Erechteus, decorated the exterior of the building ... The west side of building, with its own monumental entrance, held the altars of Poseidon Erechteus, Hephaistos and the hero Butes. In this part were also the holes in the rock visible which were made by the trident of Poseidon during his disagreement with Athena, and the Erechteis sea which was the well of Poseidon which contained salt water and sounded like the wide sea when the wind came from the south. The hall of the caryatids was situated above the grave of Cecrops, the first king of Athens,"--Hellas.net

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