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Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.
Rain fell in sheets on the broken columns and stone blocks ... I was alone outside the ruined Temple of Apollo, where for more than 1,000 years the Oracle of Delphi enigmatically answered the ...
The columned temple of Apollo Epicurius rises majestically within the sanctuary ... It also included the earliest surviving Corinthian column capital. The temple further exhibits a number of bold and ...
This picture shows part of an enclosure wall at the temple of Apollo in Frangissa ... likely serving as supports for columns and carrying the roof of a hall that surrounded all sides," the ...
Asking the OracleAll that remains of the Temple of Apollo, situated on the third terrace, are six broken Doric columns. Here the Pythia would deliver prophecies to those who came to consult the god.
There were more than 120 columns needed for the temple of Apollo. So just the columns alone would have cost about half the cost of the Sydney Opera House, or about three F-18 fighter planes.
the Doric columns growing as naturally out of the Greek mountainside as if they were petrified trees. This was the temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae in the Peloponnese, built in the 5th ...