Tegea - Sanctuary of Alea Athena 
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On the site of an earlier Archaic building at Tegea, destroyed by fire in 395 B.C., Skopas erected between 350 and 340 B.C. a new temple, which was decorated with his own sculpture. In this temple, the first in the Peloponnese entirely built of marble, Skopas retained the older elongated ground-plan with 6 x 14 columns. In the naos he departed from the regular practice of dividing it into three aisles by two rows of columns and instead set Corinthian half-columns against the interior walls so as to achieve an effect of space and magnificence.
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Must-see attractions nearby:
Sanctuary of Alea Athena
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On the east pediment was a representation of the hunt for the Calydonian boar, whose skin was preserved in the temple; the west pediment showed Telephos in the battle on the river Kaikos. Ramps at the east end and on the north side show that the temple could be entered either from the east or the north. The only surviving remains of the temple are the foundations and a few columns and capitals.
The most impressive ruin is the fourth century B.C. Doric temple of Athena Aleá, which are the Peloponnese's second largest, after Olympia's Temple of Zeus.
Address:
Sanctuary of Alea Athena, Tegea , Greece
Hours:
8:30am-3pm; Closed: Mon
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