This jewel of Attic architecture, superior identified (however incorrectly so), as the Temple of Apteros Nike, or Wingless Victory, is the work of the celebrated Callicrates. Standing on a nine.fifty m. substantial bastion, it was erected by purchase of Pericles in the fifth century BC and focused by him to the goddess Athena in commemoration of the great Athenian victories around the Persians.
In prehistoric occasions this rocky pedestal, on which the with Boeotians, allies of the Persians, at the Battle of Plataea.
The entrance to the sanctuary, via the east portico, was formed by two pillars linked with the antae by a balustrade. Here stood the cult statue, a extremely historical wood image (xoanon) representing the goddess Athena holding a pomegranate, image of fertility, in her suitable hand and her helmet in the left.
The Temple of Athena Nike embodies the ethereal elegance and noble austerity that is characteristic of Attic art. It was still standing as late as 1676 but was demolished in 1687 by the Turks, who applied the content to strengthen their defenses in opposition to the Venetians with whom they have been at war. Its reconstruction was carried out amongst 1834 and 1838 by Ross, Schaubert, and Hansen, mainly from fragments created into the Turkish fortifications. Later, in 1936, and not too long ago additional precise reconstructions ended up carried out.
In antiquity the three sides of the bastion had been surmounted by a marble balustrade with a bronze rail, and the outer surfaces of the large marble slabs forming this balustrade had been ornamented with bas-reliefs depicting Winged Victories environment up trophies and top sacrificial animals into the presence of the goddess. The grooves into which the slabs have been bedded are nonetheless visible on the west and north edges of the platform.
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