https://padlet.com/martina2000/rpvztmbckmfu Cassiere, Costa, Cusimano en-us 2018-01-17 15:53:26 UTC 2025-01-20 02:10:43 UTC hello@padlet.com martina2000 https://padlet.com/martina2000/rpvztmbckmfu/wish/222113029 The Temple of Apollo is one of the most important ancient Greek monuments on Ortygia, in front of the Piazza Pancali in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.]]> 2018-01-17 15:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/martina2000/rpvztmbckmfu/wish/222113029 martina2000 https://padlet.com/martina2000/rpvztmbckmfu/wish/222113384
It is dated to the beginning of the 6th century b.C. and is therefore the most ancient Doric temple in Sicily and more or less, the first which corresponds to the model of the temple surrounded by a peripteros of stone columns that became standard in the whole Greek world.
The temple underwent several transformations: It was a Byzantine church, from which period the front steps and traces of a central door are preserved, and then an Islamic mosque during the Emirate of Sicily

]]> 2018-01-17 15:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/martina2000/rpvztmbckmfu/wish/222113384 martina2000 https://padlet.com/martina2000/rpvztmbckmfu/wish/222114896 The temple's stylobate measures 55.36 x 21.47 metres, with its very squat columns in a 6 x 17 arrangement. It represents the moment of transition in the Greek west between temples with a wooden structure and those built completely out of stone, with a hexastyle front and a continuous colonnade around the perimeter which surrounds the pronaos and a naos divided into three aisles by two internal colonnades of more slender columns]]> 2018-01-17 16:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/martina2000/rpvztmbckmfu/wish/222114896 martina2000 https://padlet.com/martina2000/rpvztmbckmfu/wish/222115176 2018-01-17 16:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/martina2000/rpvztmbckmfu/wish/222115176