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Iktinos




Pausanias identifies Iktinos as architect of the Temple Of Apollo At Bassae . That temple was Doric on the exterior, Ionic on the interior, and incorporated a Corinthian column, the earliest known, at the center rear of the Cella . Sources also identify Iktinos as architect of the Telesterion at Eleusis , a gigantic hall used in the Eleusinian Mysteries .

The artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted a scene showing Iktinos together with the lyric poet Pindar - the painting is known as ''Pindar and Ictinus'' and is exhibited at the National Gallery, London .


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