Temple of Athena (Syracuse)

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Temple of Athena

Columns of the temple incorporated into the Duomo
Alternative name	Athenaion
Location	Syracuse, Italy
Type	Temple
Part of	Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
History
Periods	5th century BC
Cultures	Siciliote-Greek

The Temple of Athena is a hexastyle peripteral Doric temple built in Syracuse, Magna Graecia, in the 5th century BC by the tyrant Gelo after his victory over the Carthaginians at the Battle of Himera.^[1] The temple was preceded by a cult site which dated back to the 8th century BC, with an altar discovered in excavation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and by an earlier temple from the middle of the sixth century BC.