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The character of the temple building was altered when it became a Christian basilica.The building is believed to have been dismantled in c. 481–484 by order of Emperor Zeno, because the temple had been the focus of Pagan Hellenic opposition against Zeno in Aphrodisias, in support of Illus, who had promised to restore Hellenic rites, which had been suppressed during the persecution of pagans ...
Aphrodisias (/ æ f r ə ˈ d ɪ s i ə s /; [1 ... The Temple of Aphrodite. The Temple of Aphrodite was a focal point of the town. The Aphrodisian sculptors became ...
The temple appears on many coins from the Roman era, and Pausanias described the temple in the 1st century: On the summit of the Acrocorinthus is a temple of Aphrodite. The images are Aphrodite armed, Helius, and Eros with a bow. The spring, which is behind the temple, they say was the gift of Asopus to Sisyphus. [1]
A temple dedicated to the goddess was the first building constructed in what became the center of the city. Aphrodisias'ta benzersiz bir keşif: Kolosal Zeus Başı!💫
Aphrodisias: Aydın Province: Cultural: (ii)(iii)(iv)(vi) 152 (380) 2017 The site consists of Aphrodisias itself (featuring the 3rd-century BCE Temple of Aphrodite) and the ancient marble quarries nearby, which had brought wealth to the ancient Greek city. [6]
Temple of Jupiter in Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia. Small but very complete, amid other Roman buildings, c. 300. ... Aphrodisias, remains of two temples, ...
Ruins of the temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias. Aphrodite's main festival, the Aphrodisia, was celebrated across Greece, but particularly in Athens and Corinth. In Athens, the Aphrodisia was celebrated on the fourth day of the month of Hekatombaion in honor of Aphrodite's role in the unification of Attica.
She [Aphrodite] went to Kypros, to Paphos, where her precinct is and fragrant altar, and passed into her sweet-smelling temple. [9] Strabo described it: Palaipaphos [in Kypros], which last is situated at about ten stadia above the sea, has a mooring-place, and an ancient temple of Aphrodite Paphia. Then [beyond that] to the promontory Zephyria ...