Bassai - Temple of Apollo

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Temple of Apollo Description

The temple of Apollo at Bassai shows some unusual features. The column ratio (six by 15) follows the Archaic pattern rather than the classical norm of six by 13, and the temple is oriented not to the east but to the north, though it has a doorway in the east wall of the naos. While the external columns are Doric the naos has two rows of Ionic columns - not free-standing but set close to the walls and engaged in projecting buttresses. A frieze (now in the British Museum) ran round the walls of the naos above the columns, a departure from the previously normal practice of having the frieze on the external walls. Iktinos thus showed himself, in Gruben's words, "a leader of the avant-garde in architecture", carrying a stage farther the trend

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Hobbies & Activities category: Architecture - Roman, Greek, classical; Archeological site or ruin; Standalone sculpture, statue or fountain; UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Temple of Apollo
Bassai
Greece