Temple of Athena Nike

The Temple of Athena Nike

The Temple of Athena Nike is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens. It was named after the Greek goddess, Athena Nike. The temple was built around 420BC. It is the earliest fully Ionic temple on the Acropolis. The temple measured only 8.27 m (27.1 ft) in width and 5.64 m (18.5 ft) in length. The temple has four columns on the bothe the front and back sides.

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  Painting of the Temple of Athena Nike, by Carl Werner, 1877

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  A photograph of Temple of Athena Nike taken in 1848 by George Wilson Bridges, 14 years after its reconstruction in 1834

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  Scene of the Battle of Plataea, from the south frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike, British Museum (London)

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  Temple of Athena Nike is on the right from the Propylaea

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  Planfloor of the Temple of Athena Nike: Nike means Victory in Greek, and Athena was worshipped in this form, as goddess of victory, on the Acropolis of Athens. Her temple, built around 427 BC, was the earliest Ionic temple on the Acropolis sanctuary

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  A relief from the parapet around the temple which shows Nike fixing her sandal. It is housed at the Acropolis Museum

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  The parapet in the Acropolis Museum, Pentelic marble ca 410s BC, Athens Greece.

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  An 1893 photograph of the Acropolis showing the Beulé Gate, Propylaea and the Temple of Athena Nike