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Temple of Athena Nike

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Hector Meredith, Katha Rajan
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Thomas Landvatter, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Apr 21, 2024 07:37 PM — History
A temple dedicated to Athena Nike, on a bastion at the southwest end of the Acropolis of Athens. A sanctuary existed from the early 6th century BC, a small shrine was built in the mid-5th century, and the temple was built between 449 and 420 BCE. It was dismantled by the Ottomans in 1686 and reassembled between 1835 and 1844.

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The Temple of Athena Nike is part of the Athenian Acropolis complex. The present ionic temple, designed by the architect Kallikrates, was constructed between 449 and 420 BCE and built over the remains of an earlier structure destroyed during the Persian invasion. While the pedimental sculpture is poorly preserved, a significant portion of the frieze survives, including a depiction of the battle of Marathon on the south side. The temple's akroteria were gilded with material from the Athenian treasury, shown by treasury records from 382 BCE to 350 BCE. The temple was demolished in 1686 by the Turks, and rebuilt in 1834 after Greece gained independence. It was dismantled for maintenance and restoration in 1998, a process completed in 2010.


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Hector Meredith, Katha Rajan, Jeffrey Becker, Thomas Landvatter, Brady Kiesling, and Chris de Lisle, 'Temple of Athena Nike: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/118337619> [accessed: 20 December 2024] 

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