Temple of Athena
Ruins · Italy
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.060, 15.294
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Greek temple in Syracuse
History
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.