Explore: Temple Of Aphrodite (akrai)

Akrai (Ancient Greek: Ἄκραι; Latin: Acrenses) was a Greek colony of Magna Graecia founded in Sicily by the Syracusans in 663 BC. It was located near the

god of the sun, law, healing, plague, reason, music and poetry; Artemis, goddess of chastity, the hunt and the wilderness; Aphrodite, goddess of love;

Theatre of Syracuse, the Greek Theatre of Segesta [it], the Greek Theatre of Tindari [it], the Greek Theatre of Hippana [it], the Greek Theatre of Akrai [it]

build a temple to Aphrodite Pandemos (literally "Aphrodite of all the people"). In regards to price, there are numerous allusions to the price of one obolus

building of the Parthenon, and Praxiteles, whose nude female sculptures were the first to be considered artistically respectable. Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos

: National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Richardson, N. J. (2010). Three Homeric Hymns: To Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite : Hymns 3, 4, and 5. Cambridge

more source of inspiration. Delphi Archaeological Museum has some particularly good examples of this style, including a vase with Aphrodite and Eros. The