Tag: ancient greece
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Agrigento’s Temple of Heracles
These massive doric columns are from the 6th century BC Temple of Heracles at Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples (Valle dei Templi). The eight of them were reconstructed in 1924. The ancient city of Akragas was established by the Greeks and then conquered by the Romans, who renamed it Agrigentum.
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Agrigento’s Temple of Castor and Pollux
The four remaining columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, built in the 5th century BC and reconstructed in the 19th century, offer a lasting impression of the outstanding Valle dei Templi ruins of the ancient Greater Greece colony that was once 200,000 inhabitants strong.
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Excavation Still Underway
The ancient city of Selinunte is today still under excavation. Here an archaeologist continues to uncover the story of one of the eight Phoenician and Greek temples left to be forgotten after the city was destroyed by Carthage in 409 BC.