Temple of Apollo at Corinth
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 27, 2023 05:06 AM
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History
The second temple of Apollo at Corinth whose reconstructed remains are visible on the site today. The structure dates ca. 540 B.C.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570500582
37.906033525, 22.879194375
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ναός Απόλλωνος (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery Location: Center of the Temple of Apollo at Corinth (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Temple of Apollo at Corinth located at Corinthus/Korinthos (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center), temple
Pleiades
Coordinates were determined by eye using Google Earth on 27 October 2011. Imagery date was 8/27/2009 (Image copyright 2011 GeoEye). Eye alt: 210m.
The peripteral Doric temple of Apollo at Corinth dates ca. 540 B.C. and replaced an earlier temple of ca. 625 B.C. The temple’s ground plan of 6 x 15 columns grant it the elongated proportion of Archaic Doric temples.
Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Sean Gillies, 'Temple of Apollo at Corinth: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570500582> [accessed: 28 March 2025]
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