Listed 19 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for wider area of: "ITALY Country EUROPE" .
SALAPIA (Ancient city) PUGLIA
Oracles of Calchas and Podalirius, on Mount Drion, in South Italy (Daunia). The character and ceremonial of these oracles were similar to each other, and also to the oracle of Amphiaraus at Oropus (see above). (Strabo, vi. p. 284.)
In Daunia, on a hill by the name of Drium, are to be seen two hero-temples: one, to Calchas, on the very summit, where those who consult the oracle sacrifice to his shade a black ram and sleep in the hide, and the other, to Podaleirius, down near the base of the hill, this temple being about one hundred stadia distant from the sea; and from it flows a stream which is a cure-all for diseases of animals.
CAMPANIA (Region) ITALY
I once saw an elephant's skull in the sanctuary of Artemis in Campania.
bronze-work of Myron of Eleutherai
There is a temple of Hercules at Agrigentum, not far from the forum, considered very holy and greatly reverenced among the citizens.
SYRACUSSES (Ancient city) SICILY
Lygdamis has his tomb near the quarries at Syracuse.
GELA (Ancient city) SICILY
Site: Olympia
Type: Treasury
Summary: Small temple-like building; on the north side of the Sanctuary
of Zeus (Altis), the 12th from the west and most easterly of the treasuries.
Date: ca. 575 B.C. - 550 B.C.
Period: Archaic
Plan:
Cella opening south onto a deep Doric hexastyle prostyle porch. Large statue base
in cella.
History:
The prostyle porch was added to the temple at ca. 500 B.C.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 2 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
METAPONTO (Town) ITALY
Site: Olympia
Type: Treasury
Summary: Small temple-like building; on the north side of the Sanctuary
of Zeus (Altis), the 10th treasury from the west, and 3rd from the east on the
Treasury Terrace.
Date: ca. 575 B.C.
Period: Archaic
Plan:
Cella opening south onto a pronaos.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 2 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
SELINOUS (Ancient city) SICILY
Site: Olympia
Type: Treasury
Summary: Small temple-like building; on the north side of the Sanctuary
of Zeus (Altis), the ninth treasury from the west, and fourth from the east on
the treasury house terrace. Altar on its west.
Date: ca. 550 B.C. - 525 B.C.
Period: Archaic
Plan:
Cella opening south onto Doric columned pronaos distyle in antis.
History:
Identification uncertain. Altar to the west has been identified as that of Rhea
or Gaia.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 2 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
SYRACUSSES (Ancient city) SICILY
Site: Delphi
Type: Treasury
Summary: Temple-like building; in the southern half of the Sanctuary
of Apollo, east of the curve where the Sacred Way 1st curves and ascends to the
northeast.
Date: ca. 550 B.C.
Period: Archaic
Plan:
Believed by Dinsmoor to be Doric prostyle tetrastyle.
History:
No detailed plan available and the identity of this treasury is much debated.
Destroyed after 413 B.C.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 2 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
Site: Olympia
Type: Treasury
Summary: Small temple-like building; on the north side of the Sanctuary
of Zeus (Altis), the 2nd treasury from the west on the Treasury Terrace.
Date: ca. 480 B.C.
Period: Classical
Plan:
Cella opening south onto a Doric distyle in antis pronaos.
History:
Built by Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 1 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
SYVARIS (Ancient city) PUGLIA
Site: Olympia
Type: Treasury
Summary: Small temple-like building; on the north side of the Sanctuary
of Zeus (Altis), the 5th treasury from the west on the Treasury Terrace.
Date: ca. 600 B.C. - 575 B.C.
Period: Archaic
Plan:
Cella opening south onto a pronaos.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 2 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
Site: Foce del Sele
Type: Treasury
Summary: Treasury building attributed to the Sybarites.
Date: 570 B.C. - 550 B.C.
Period: Archaic
Plan:
The remains of the naos are the end wall to the west and the long walls to a maximum
height of four courses. There is no trace of a pronaos or a wall between pronaos
and naos. Reconstruction remains largely hypothetical.
History:
The erection of the treasury has been attributed to the Sybarites, and its incompleteness
to the destruction of their city.
Other Notes:
Of thirty-eight metopes belonging to the treasury, three are illegible.
Lisa M. Cerrato, ed.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 1 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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