Hecatompedon

temple, Athens, Greece

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  • Athens: Acropolis
    In Athens: Athens’s expansion

    …to Athena known as the Hecatompedon (Hundred-Footer) was erected on the site later to be occupied by the Parthenon. The pediments (triangular spaces forming the gable) of this temple were decorated with large-scale sculpture in gaily coloured porous limestone, representing groups of lions bringing down bulls and depicting snaky-tailed monsters…

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