The Parthenon on THE ACROPOLIS
The Temple of Olympian Zeus (also known as the Olympieion, is a temple in Athens. Although work began in the 6th century BC, it was not completed until the reign of the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods it.
Hadrian’s Gate at the entrance to the Temple of Zeus. (Only a few minutes away on foot from Syntagma Square)
It is located in central Athens immediately adjacent to Syntagma Square, on the corner of Karageorgi Servias and Stadiou Streets, and is now part of “The Luxury Collection” hotel chain, owned by an American company. The structure was built in 1842 as a house for Antonis Dimitriou, a wealthy Greek from the island of Limos, only 12 years after Greece’s independence from Ottoman Rule. The Hotel is also located nearby from the Plaka a picturesque old historical neighborhood of Athens, just under the Acropolis, with labyrinthine streets and neo-classical architecture.
Temple of Apollo (Corinth)
The temple of Apollo at Corinth is one of the earliest Doric temples in the Peloponnese and the Greek mainland. Built around 560 B.C.E., of local oolithic limestone on top of an imposing, rocky hill to the north of Acrocorinth, the Archaic temple was an emblem for the Greek city of Corinth, reflecting its growth and prosperity.
The temple was peripteral, surrounded by a pteron of 42 monolithic, limestone columns (6×15), over 7 m. high. Its central structure was divided into three parts: an antechamber with two columns in antis (pronaos), a central oblong, rectangular room subdivided into two parts (cella), and a rear room with two columns in antis (opistodomos).
The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Pelopnnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland and therefore effectively making the former an island. The canal is 6.3 km in length and was built between 1881 and 1893 although it has a been project since the 7th century B.C.
Corinth derives its name from Ancient Corinth, a city-state of antiquity. The site was occupied from before 3000 BC.
The Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, was constructed in 444?440 BC, over the ruins of a temple dating from the Archaic Period. It is perched above the sea at a height of almost 60 metres (200 ft). The design of the temple is a typical hexastyle, i.e., it had a front portico with six columns.
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