Athens, Temple of Apollo Patroos (Building)
Temple, tetrastyle in antis; on the west side of the Agora between the Stoa of Zeus (Eleutherios) and the Metroon.
- ID:
- aa_80
- Type:
- Building
- Date:
- ca. -338 — -326
- Period:
- Hellenistic
- Context:
- Athens
- Region:
- Attica
- Dimensions:
-
ca. 10 m x 16.5 m.
- Type:
- Temple
Plan
A rectangular cella with a pronaos of 4 columns in antis on the east. An adyton projected from the north side and communicated with the cella. On the north, in the L formed by the adyton and connected to the Temple of Apollo by a wall was the small, slightly older Temple of Zeus Phratrios and Athena Phratria.
History
Under this temple are the remains of a smaller, apsidal Temple of Apollo, dated to the 6th century B.C. The earlier temple was probably destroyed by the Persians in 480/79 B.C.