Greek Temples and Sanctuaries

Temples and sanctuaries of ancient Greece, among them the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis, the oracle of Delphi and the sanctuary of Olympia, where a famous statue of Zeus once stood. A monument belongs here when the cited article places it in ancient Greece. It excludes Roman and Near Eastern temples. The group follows the civilization the cited article names. These buildings were built for the worship of Athena, Apollo and Zeus in the fifth century BCE and earlier, and they set the pattern of the Greek temple, with columns on all sides, that later builders copied across Europe and America. Later Roman copies are not placed here.