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Iktinos (also Iktious or Ictinus) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC, who, together with Kallikrates designed the Parthenon (– BC) in Athens, Greece.

Little is known about the life of Iktinos, most contemporary information being based on the writings of Plutarch.

The most complete surviving example of Iktinos's work is the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, which has been preserved almost intact as a result of having been a Christian Church. It is a Doric temple.

Iktinos is also believed to have designed the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, the first known use of a Corinthian column, and also the Telesterion shrine of Eleusis, a gigantic hall used in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Pausanias

On the mountain is a place called Bassae, and the temple of Apollo the Helper, which, including the roof, is of stone. Of the temples in the Peloponnesus, this might be placed first after the one at Tegea for the beauty of its stone and for its symmetry. Apollo rece

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" so many of our architects come to Rome from Greece."
The names of a small number of ancient Greek architects and engineers have survived from the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods, as well as a handful who worked during the Roman period. In the early second century AD Emperor Trajan acknowledged the importance of Greek architects to the Romans.
Pliny the Younger (circa AD, nephew of the writer Pliny the Elder) was the imperial governor of the Roman province of Bithynia and Pontus in northern Anatolia (Asia Minor; today northern Turkey). In a letter to Trajan he wrote of the problems local people in the Greek cities of Nicaea and Claudiopolis were having attempting to complete public building projects such as theatres, baths and gymnasia, and
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Parthenon
Temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece
"Temple of Athena" redirects here. For other uses, see Parthenon (disambiguation) and Temple of Athena (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Pantheon, Rome.
The Parthenon (; Ancient Greek: Παρθενών, romanized:&#;Parthenōn[par.tʰe.nɔ̌ːn]; Greek: Παρθενώνας, romanized:&#;Parthenónas[parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple^[6]^[7] on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddessAthena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, and the Parthenon is considered an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece, democracy, and Western civilization.^[8]^[9]
The Parthenon was built in the 5th century BC in thanksgiving for the Hellenic victory over Persian Empire invaders during the Greco-Persian Wars.^[10] Like most Greek temples, the Parthenon also served as the city treasury.^[11]^[12] Constr