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temple and Athena
Nearby is the temple of Athena.
They invade his temple, and he says that the matter should be brought before Athena.
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.
Whether true or not, Athena still had cause to be indignant, as Ajax had dragged a supplicant from her temple.
A temple sacred to Athena Polias ( Protectress of the City ) was erected around 570 550 BC.
Between 529 520 BC yet another temple was built by the Peisistratids, the Old Temple of Athena, usually referred to as the arkhaios neōs ( ἀρχαῖος νεώς, " ancient temple ").
The temple may have been burnt down in 406 / 405 BC as Xenophon mentions that the old temple of Athena was set on fire.
Between the temple of Athena Nike and the Parthenon, there was the temenos of Artemis Brauronia or Brauroneion, the goddess represented as a bear and worshipped in the deme of Brauron.
The temple of Athena Nike is the only edifice still unfinished, pending proper reassembly of its parts, all of which survive practically intact.
* Temple of Aphaea, dedicated to its namesake, a goddess who was later associated with Athena ; the temple was part of a pre-Christian, equilateral holy triangle of temples including the Athenian Parthenon and the temple of Poseidon at Sounion.
The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.
* Cleopatra and Periboea of Locris, two maidens sent to the Trojan temple of Athena in retribution for Ajax the Lesser's sacrilege
At the fall of Troy, she sought shelter in the temple of Athena, where she was violently abducted and raped by Ajax the Lesser.
The third, as described by Pindar, was created by the gods Hephaestus and Athena, but its architectural details included Siren-like figures or ' Enchantresses ', whose baneful songs eventually provoked the Olympian gods to bury the temple in the earth ( according to Pausanias, it was destroyed by earthquake and fire ).
The temple in question is either the amphiprostyle Temple of Athena Nike now visible on the site or a small-scale predecessor ( naiskos ) whose remains were found in the later temple's foundations.
It has been suggested that Hadrian was deliberately imitating Phidias ' famous statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon, seeking to draw attention to the temple and himself by doing so.
Poseidon also had sexual intercourse with Medusa on the floor of a temple to Athena.
The Parthenon () is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the maiden goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.
The Parthenon itself replaced an older temple of Athena, which historians call the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, that was destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 BC.
According to this theory, the name of Parthenon means the " temple of the virgin goddess " and refers to the cult of Athena Parthenos that was associated with the temple.

temple and Polias
This building replaced a hekatompedon ( meaning " hundred-footer ") and would have stood beside the archaic temple dedicated to the Athena Polias.
In the western half of the city, on a high terrace north of the main street and approached by a fine stairway, was the temple of Athena Polias, a hexastyle peripteral structure in the ionic order built by Pytheos, the architect of the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halikarnassos, one of the seven wonders.
It is believed to have been a replacement for the Peisistratid temple of Athena Polias destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC.
The temple itself was dedicated to Athena Polias and Poseidon Erechtheus.
Ionic capital, from the temple of Athena | Athena Polias, Priene, Ionia, in a 19th-century engraving
The columns are forty-five feet high and five feet in diameter, their capitals are loosely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene ; the bases on those of the temple of Dionysus at Teos.
He built the Temple of Athena Polias cited by Vitruvius ( I. 1. 12 ): " Pythius, the celebrated builder of the temple of Minerva at Priene ".

temple and was
It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.
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 family home was, in fact, a temple ; ;
All of the elements of the experience were impossible and yet the reality of them was heavy upon him and he resolved never again to visit the temple at Fudomae.
Acesius was the epithet of Apollo worshipped in Elis, where he had a temple in the agora.
A temple was dedicated to Apollo Medicus at Rome, probably next to the temple of Bellona.
Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.
* At Khyrse, in Troad, the temple was built for Apollon Smintheus
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.
On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".
After the battle of Actium, which was fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour.
His body was placed in Hadrian's mausoleum, a column was dedicated to him on the Campus Martius, and the temple he had built in the Forum in 141 to his deified wife Faustina was rededicated to the deified Faustina and the deified Antoninus.
Mary was the temple of God but not God in the temple.
Therefore only the one who was in the temple can be worshipped.
The temple school was widely denounced in the press.
In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.
He called himself " The anointed priest of Anu " and " the great ensi of Enlil " and his daughter, Enheduanna, was installed as priestess to Nanna at the temple in Ur.

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