Temple of Hera, Olympia
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- OSM location of Temple of Hera (750 BC - AD 300)
- Imagery location of Temple of Hera (750 BC - AD 300)
- Temple of Hera (English, modern)
- Temple of Hera, Olympia connection Olympia (unspecified date range)
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- Arafat, K W. 1995. "Pausanias and the Temple of Hera at Olympia." The Annual of the British School at Athens 90:461-73.
- O'Brien, Joan V. 1993. The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Pedley, John G. 2005. Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Wikipedia (English) Temple of Hera, Olympia
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Pleiades
The Temple of Hera (or Heraion) at Olympia is a temple dedicated to Hera, the Greek goddess of marriage, the wife of Zeus, and the Queen of the Olympian gods. Built originally out of wood ca. 600-590 BC, the Heraion is the oldest temple at Olympia and one of the first examples of the Doric order extant in Greece. As described by the Greek geographer and traveler Pausanias, the wood was gradually replaced with stone over time as the temple was renovated. After being destroyed by an earthquake in the fourth century A.D., however, the temple was not rebuilt. Pausanias, who visited during the second century A.D., described the temple as housing a standing statue of Zeus accompanied by a statue of Hera enthroned, along with numerous other figures of various Greek gods. Pausanias also described the temple's priestesses, known as the Elean women, as having control over the temple's activities, which included organizing the Heraean Games.
Shanell Smith, Christian Dukes, Jeffrey Becker, Justina Gil, Adam Rabinowitz, Janna Newman, and Monica Beltran, 'Temple of Hera, Olympia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/584889481> [accessed: 26 January 2021]
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