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Agrigento: Temple of Olympian Zeus, interior
Agrigento: Interior of the temple of Zeus (Athena Review)
The Temple of Olympian Zeus at Agrigento, built in 480 BC but never completed, is considered the largest Doric temple ever built. It was seven columns wide and fourteen columns long. The temple measured 113 x 56 meters at the stylobate, with a height of some 20 m. The columns tood on a five-stepped platform 4.5 meters above the ground. Between the columns were colossal stone atlas figures called telemones, each 7.5 meters high.
The interior plan of the temple includes the cella or naos preceded by a porch (pronaos) with an episthodomos in back. The cella walls contained 12 pilasters on each long side.
This interior view of the temple shows a portion of the cella from the side.
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