So-called Temple of the Dioscuri
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Oct 26, 2020 01:36 PM
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History
Temple in the acropolis of Cyrene, probably built around the VII century BC
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/778145952
32.8177715, 21.8575782
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the so-called Temple of the Dioscuri in Cyrene (550 BC - AD 300)
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- Tempietto Ipetrale (Italian, modern)
- Temple of the Dioscuri (English, modern)
- So-called Temple of the Dioscuri connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
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The temple belongs to the sacred area behind the so-called Theatre 3, and it is aligned with the altar beneath the latter. It was probably rebuilt a first time in the V century BC and then again in the II AD. Its name comes from a Chiot chalice dedicated to Castor and Pollux found during the excavations.
Valeria Vitale, and Jeffrey Becker, 'So-called Temple of the Dioscuri: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/778145952> [accessed: 06 June 2023]
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