Temple of Hera, Agrigento
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The so-called Temple of "Hera" (or Roman Juno), otherwise known as Temple D, is a
Its attribution to Hera derives from a misinterpretation of a passage by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder, which actually refers to the temple of Hera on the Lacinio promontory near Crotone, Calabria.[1]
It was built about the year 450 BC and in period and in style belongs to the
The temple was restored in the era of the Roman province of Sicily, with the original terracotta roof being replaced by one of marble, with a more steeply inclined slope on the eastern side.
Description
The building is a
The front columns differ slightly in width, tapering at the ends and swelling at their middles. The peristyle of thirty-four 6.4 metre-high columns, each formed from four stacked drums, rests on a crepidoma of four steps. The whole edifice is on a raised, largely artificial, spur. In front of the eastern face are notable remains of the ancient altar.
The interior is composed of a
The northern colonnade with the architrave and part of the frieze is completely preserved, while the colonnades on the other three sides are only partly surviving, with four columns missing and nine severely damaged, and they almost entirely lack their architraves. Some small elements of the naos remain, mostly the foundations of its exterior walls. The building has been being restored using anastylosis since the eighteenth century.
References
- ^ 20 – Tempio di giunone https://www.parcovalledeitempli.it/archeologia/20-museo-archeologico-regionale-pietro-griffo/
- ^ Diodorus 13.96.5
Bibliography
- Robertson, D. S. (1969). Greek and Roman Architecture. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
- Akragas, The Princeton Encyclopaedia of Classical Sites (edited by Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister) Princeton University Press. 1976.