Lindos - Temple of Athena Lindia

At the top of the steps of the Acropolis at Lindos is a large terrace dominated by an 80m/260ft long stoa with projecting wings (partly re-erected), built about 200 B.C. in front of the fourth century structures on the acropolis - a monumental staircase 21m/70ft wide, the propylaia (with five openings, like the Propylaia on the Acropolis in Athens) and the temple terrace. This highest terrace was surrounded on all four sides by stoas, the foundations of which have survived. At the far left-hand corner of the terrace is the temple of Athena Lindia, a small shrine in a grandiose setting, built after 300 B.C. on the site of Kleoboulos's sixth century temple. It is 23m/75ft long by 8m/25ft across, with four Doric columns at the east end (the type technically known as prostyle tetrastyle). The unusual situation of the temple, on the very edge of the precipitous crag, suggests that the goddess was originally worshipped in the cave below the temple. From the farthest tip of the crag, beyond the temple, there are views of this cave (which can also be seen from the east end of the large stoa) and of the small harbor.