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    The Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion (also "Hephesteum" or "Hephaesteum"; Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστεῖον, Greek: Ναός Ηφαίστου, and formerly called in error...
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    the city. Ancient monuments such as the Parthenon, Erechtheion and the Hephaisteion (Theseion) were converted into churches. As the empire became increasingly...
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    of Aphaea with triglyphs slotted for metopes The entablature of the Hephaisteion (temple of Hephaistos) in Athens, showing Doric frieze with sculpted...
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    enveloped by two thin slabs of marble. Similar to the architecture of the Hephaisteion, the temple of Hephaestus, the ceilings of the porches including those...
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    The entablature of the Hephaisteion (temple of Hephaistos) in Athens, showing geisa....
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    portion of its outer wall could be decorated with a frieze, as on the Hephaisteion and the Parthenon. Opisthodomoi are present in the layout of: Temples...
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    in the Doric frieze of the Temple of Aphaia. The entablature of the Hephaisteion in Athens, showing Doric frieze with triglyphs and sculpted metopes....
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    Classical studies, e.g. the temples at Paestum, Akragas or Segesta, but the Hephaisteion and the Parthenon of Athens also influenced scholarship and Neoclassical...
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    the throw; it is shown in a sculpture in the metōpē (μετώπη) of the Hephaisteion in Athens, where Theseus is depicted heaving Kerkyōn. The opponents are...
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    the city. Ancient monuments such as the Parthenon, Erechtheion and the Hephaisteion (Theseion) were converted into churches. As the empire became increasingly...
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