Distant view of the temple (at center), looking NW, Temple of Hephaistos, ...

Context: Akragas
Type: Temple
Summary: Temple; in the southwestern corner of the city, east of the "Temple of the Dioskouroi."
Dimensions:

43 x 20.8


Architectural Order:

Doric.

Plan:

Fragmentary remains of a peristyle and cella, crepidoma, and shafts of two columns.

History:

Dated to 5th century B.C., but interior and foundations of an earlier temple are contained in antis of the 6th century B.C.

Sources Used:

PECS, 23-6

Other Bibliography:

E.A. Freeman, History of Sicily (1891). A. Holm, Storia della Sicilia nell'antichità (1896-1900). Koldewey and Puchstein, Die Griechischen Tempel in Unteritalien und Sizilien (1899). B. Pace, Arte e civiltà della Sicilia antica (1935-1949). J. Berard, La colonisation grecque le l'Italie Méridionale et de la Sicile dans l'antiquité (1957). G.E. Rizzo, Monete greche della Sicilia (1946). T.J. Dunbabin, The Western Greeks (1948). L. Pareti, Sicilia antica (1959). M.I. Finley, Ancient Sicily (1968). G. Schubring, Topografia storica di Agrigento (1888). P. Marconi, Agrigento, topografia ed arte (1929). P. Marconi, Agrigento Arcaica (1933). P. Griffo, Ultimi scavi e scoperte in Agrigento (1946). P. Griffo and G. Schmiedt, Agrigento antica dalle fotografie aeree e dai recenti scavi (1958). P. Griffo, Agrigento-Cuida ai monumenti e agli scavi (1962).