Temple of Apollo Pythios
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Traces
Certain
representative
- Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC) (confident)
- Citation:
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- Berthold, R.M. 1984. Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age. United Kingdom : Cornell University Press, 1984.
- Chase, G. H. 1916. “Archaeology in 1914.” The Classical Journal 11:196-207.
- PECS (Perseus), RHODES (including Ialysos, Kameiros, Lindos, Vroulia, the city of Rhodes, Mt. Atabyrion) Dodecanese, Greece
- Rice, E. E. 1995. "Grottoes on the Acropolis of Hellenistic Rhodes." The Annual of the British School at Athens 90:383-404.
Pleiades
The temple of Apollo Pythios was constructed in the second century BC. It stands on the southern part of the Agios Stephanos hill. This Doric-order temple is rather small compared to other Doric temples. Its peripteros consists of 6 Doric columns across the front and fewer than 12 along the sides. It was made of local limestone. After subsequent earthquakes and damage from bombing during WWII, only four columns remain. An Italian crew started excavating the temple in 1914. After the excavation, the Italian excavators re-erected the remaining columns of the East facade. Minimal archaeological work has been done since the initial excavation.