Not so, he answers, it is not the architect but the temple that is immortal.

Nearby is the temple of Athena.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

The old oracles in Delphi seem to be connected with a local tradition of the priesthood, and there is not clear evidence that a kind of inspiration-prophecy existed in the temple.

One interpretation of his motive is that it was in revenge for Achilles ' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

In the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, the single figure of Apollo is dominating the scene.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

He is commemorated in the Walhalla temple, a monument near Regensburg to the distinguished figures of German history.

In Asgard also is a temple for the 12 gods, Gladsheim, and another for the 12 goddesses, Vingólf.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

It is said that he was desirous of erecting a temple to Jesus, but was dissuaded by the pagan priests.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.

Whether this temple replaced an older one, or a mere sacred precinct or altar, is not known.

East of the entrance and north of the Parthenon is the temple known as the Erechtheum.

The temple of Athena Nike is the only edifice still unfinished, pending proper reassembly of its parts, all of which survive practically intact.

Supporters of this view believe that the Roman Empire does not threaten the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ because Luke “ simply recognizes its existence as a political reality, but he is clear that God is greater .” Throughout Acts, believers like Paul are being charged with spiritual crimes concerning “ teaching against Israel, the law, and the temple ” ( Acts 21: 21, 28 ; 23: 29 ; 24: 5 ; 25: 8, 19 ; 28: 17 ) or being a civil disturbance ( Acts 16: 20, 21: 38, 25: 8 ) rather than political charges.

The shofar or keren ( horn ) is the only temple instrument still being used today in the synagogue, and it is only used from Rosh Chodesh Elul through the end of Yom Kippur.

The Ballroom soon proclaimed itself the " temple of mambo ", for the city's best dancers — the Mambo Aces, " Killer Joe " Piro, Augie and Margo Rodriguez, Paulito and Lilon, Louie Maquina and Pedro " Cuban Pete " Aguilar — gave mambo demonstrations there and made a reputation for their expressive use of arms, legs, head and hands.

A tradition mentioned by Cicero states that Agamedes and Trophonius, after having built this temple, prayed to the god to grant them in reward for their labor what was best for men.

Fashioned as a Greek temple high above the James River, it is now the home of Central Virginia's best collection of memorabilia, fine furnishings, costumes and industrial history.

It is perhaps, in this way that Nephthys best fulfilled her role as an important national deity whose ideal function was to provide powerful assistance to her associates in a great variety of temple cults — a truly " Useful " and " Excellent " goddess, as her primary epithets reflect.

The Weaverville Joss House ( also called " The Temple of the Forest Beneath the Clouds "), a Taoist temple, was built in 1874 and is California's best preserved example of a Gold Rush-era Chinese place of worship.

The most famous and best preserved Roman dome-and the largest-is that of the Pantheon, a temple in Rome built by Emperor Hadrian as part of the Baths of Agrippa.

" A gifted student in the pursuit we also at humbler distance love, made pilgrimage here, and was engaged in making a drawing of its interesting painted story, when death suddenly stayed the work of the artist, snapping the very pencil in his fingers, and instantly translated him, from picturing the earthly image of the Founder of these courts below, into his immortal presence in the great temple above ... His cunning fingers are mouldering in the dust below, and moss and decay are stealthily obliterating his record outside, but the fidelity and truth of his works remain bright and undimmmed, forming his best and most enduring monument ".

He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar, he had an experience of an " Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere " to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals.

Major attractions of the area include the largest and best preserved cave temple complex of Sri Lanka, and the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, famous for being built in just 167 days.

It is the largest and best preserved cave temple complex in Sri Lanka.

The best known is the Virupaksha temple, built by Queen Lokamahadevi ( Trilokyamahadevi ) in 745 to commemorate her husband's victory ( Vikramaditya II ) over the Pallavas of Kanchi.

Today, the Hibis temple remains — together with the Oracle or Ammoneion of Siwa -- as " the best preserved and best-documented temple of the early Egyptian Late Period and is therefore a primary monument to the history of temple building.

The idol of the Hindu goddess Durga in the temple is considered to be one of the best.

According to the architect, critic and historian Germain Téllez, the facade of this temple is the best example of baroque style throughout Colombia.

Works after Scopas are preserved in the British Museum ( reliefs ) in London ; fragments from the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens ; the celebrated Ludovisi Ares in the Palazzo Altemps, Rome ; a statue of Pothos restored as Apollo Citharoedus in the Capitoline Museum, Rome ; and a statue of Meleager, unmentioned in ancient literature but surviving in numerous replicas, perhaps best represented by a torso in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Envy ( the last of the satires, and generally accounted the best, although without strong apparent reason ) represents Rosa dreaming that, as he is about to inscribe in all modesty his name upon the threshold of the temple of glory, the goddess or fiend of Envy obstructs him, and a long interchange of reciprocal objurgations ensues.

Gangō-ji miniature pagoda The best preserved part of the temple is known as Gangō-ji Gokurakubō ( 元興寺極楽坊 ) and belongs to the Shingon-risshū school.

The nearby 9th-century temple complex at Prambanan contains some of the best preserved examples of Hindu temple architecture in Java.

The settlement has an ancient history, and is best known for the Hellenistic Garni temple.

The Pantheon ( dedicated to all the planetary gods ) is the best preserved temple of ancient times with an intact ceiling featuring an open " eye " in the center.

The temple was described as ' the best Buddhist temple in the world '.