Ancient site · Greece · Still standing
Temple of Hephaestus
The Temple of Hephaestus is a Doric peripteral marble temple on the Agoraios Kolonos hill at the northwest side of the Athenian Agora, dedicated to the god Hephaestus. Constructed in the mid-5th century BC and later used as a church, it survives largely intact with its surrounding colonnade, cella and sculpted pediments.
First raised
500 BC
Its prime
415 BC
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 415 BC
What Temple of Hephaestus looked like in its prime.
A rectangular, hexastyle Doric temple of pale Pentelic marble sitting on a three-stepped krepis atop a small tree-studded hill. Six fluted columns on the short ends and thirteen along the long sides form a full peristyle; a low-pitched marble roof and sculpted pediments cap the entablature. The pronaos and opisthodomos display continuous Ionic friezes, an inner Doric colonnade frames the cella, and a stone altar sits before the east steps.
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10 places to explore in 415 BC.
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