Title: The Temple of Apollo at Didyma

View Description: Stone Carving

Subject: 

  • Apollo (Greek deity)
  • Temples
  • Oracles

Culture: Greek

Period: Hellenistic

Century: 5 BCE

Dates: 429 – 70

Work Dates: 429 – 70

Country: Turkey

Current Site: Didyma, TUR

Original Site: Didyma, TUR

Notes:

  • [Creation Notes] Created by the Greeks Didyma was not an ancient city of the Ionian League but a temple of Apollo which contained the most important oracle of Apollo Branchidae in during the Hellenistic world. The temple and sanctuary was destroyed by the Persian King Xerxes in 479 BCE. It was rebuilt but never fully restored but it remains the third largest building of the ancient world.
  • [Description Notes] The Temple of Apollo at Didyma contains over one hundred columns which supported the original roof,a well where ritual ablutions were preformed, a circular alter for sacrifices, oracle room, and a central courtyard.

Category: Archaeological Sites

Work Type: Temple