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    The Temple of Hera, or Heraion, is an ancient Archaic Greek temple at Olympia, Greece, that was dedicated to Hera, queen of the Greek gods. It was the...
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    sanctuary of Hera enjoyed, and the large influx of pilgrims. Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Olympia and two of the...
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    1877 in the ruins of the Temple of Hera, Olympia, in Greece. It is displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. It is traditionally attributed to...
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    Kronos). It consisted of an arrangement of buildings, the most important of which are the Temple of Hera (or Heraion/Heraeum), the Temple of Zeus, the Pelopion...
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  • Heraion (redirect from Temple of Hera)
    Heraion of Argos, near Nafplion in Argolis Heraion of Perachora (Hera Akraia and Hera Limenia), near Corinth Temple of Hera (Olympia) Heraion of Metapontum...
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    The Temple of Hera II (also erroneously called the Temple of Neptune or of Poseidon), is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia in Paestum, Campania, Italy. It...
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  • Heraean Games (redirect from Games of Hera)
    about 600 BC, when the first temple of Hera at Olympia was built. It is uncertain whether the races were an original feature of the festival, or a later addition...
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    The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the...
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    as the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, have two steps but the majority, like the Parthenon, have three, with the exceptional example of the Temple of Apollo...
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    Doric order (redirect from Doric temple)
    stone Doric temple Temple of Hera, Olympia Delphi, temple of Apollo The three temples at Paestum, Italy Valle dei Templi, Agrigento, Temple of Juno, Agrigento...
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    example of hammered bronze sculpture, may be Artemis, Nike or a Sphinx. A terracotta disc which once stood at the apex of the Temple of Hera, Olympia, possibly...
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    Peloponnese (redirect from Sanjak of Mora)
    Games were held at Olympia, in the western Peloponnese and this date is sometimes used to denote the beginning of the classical period of Greek antiquity...
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    Temple of Juno Lacinia (as a Roman goddess, originally Hera Lacinia) is a ruined ancient Greek temple at the heart of a sanctuary dedicated to Hera located...
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    currency of modern Greece from 1832 until the launch of the euro in 2001. The drachma was reintroduced in May 1832, shortly before the establishment of the...
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    be directly affixed to the columns, as is visible e.g. on the Temple of Hera at Olympia. The peristasis could also be used for cult processions, or simply...
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    present temple. Hadrian constructed other buildings also for the Athenians: a temple of Hera and Zeus Panellenios (Common to all Greeks). The Temple of Olympian...
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  • Amphictyonis Temple of Dionysus, Naxos Temple of Dionysus Lysios Temple of Hephaestus Temple of Hera Lacinia Temple of Hera, Mon Repos Temple of Hera, Olympia Temple...
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    while. There was a school of sculptors and architects that included Rhoecus, the architect of the Temple of Hera (Olympia), and the great sculptor and...
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    Zeus (redirect from Birth of Zeus)
    whose temples were situated upon hills, such as Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Pallas, Artemis, and others Acrettenus: his name in Mysia. Adad: one of his names...
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    site of the Temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece, by German archaeologist Ernst Curtius; it is later exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Canon...
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    2012 Summer Olympics torch relay (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2012)
    traditional lighting ceremony took place on 10 May at the Temple of Hera, Olympia, home of the Ancient Olympic Games. The torch travelled around Greece, arriving...
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    of Ge Olympia: [Within the sanctuary of Zeus Olympios in the lower town of Athens:] Within the precincts are antiquities: a bronze Zeus, a temple of Kronos...
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    Hephaestus (category Children of Hera)
    son of Zeus and Hera or he was Hera's parthenogenous child. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mother Hera because of his lameness, the result of a congenital...
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    Heracles (redirect from Glory of Hera)
     "glory/fame of Hera"), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene...
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  • a Temple of Aphrodite Areia and an oracle of Aphrodite Ambologera, as well as a statue of Aphrodite Olympia in a sanctuary of Zeus, and a statue of Aphrodite...
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    Rhea (mythology) (category Children of Gaia)
    her consort, and the mother of the five eldest Olympian gods (Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon, and Zeus) and Hades, king of the underworld. When Cronus...
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    scholars theorize that one of the Temples of Hera at Paestum may have been dedicated to Hera and Hebe rather than to Hera and Zeus, which is the more...
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    pair of golden scissors. Then he took them to the temple of Hera and placed them on a gold-ivory table. From there, the Hellanodikai (the judges of the...
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     495 BCE Temple E at Selinus (465–450 BCE) dedicated to Hera The Temple of Zeus at Olympia, now a ruin Temple F or the so-called "Temple of Concord" at...
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    interpretation of the historian Pausanias looking at the Temple of Hera at Olympia in the 2nd century AD. The stone columns are made of a series of solid stone...
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