The temple of Athena Nike, built in Ionic order of beautiful white Pentelic marble ( Pentelic marble is prized for its golden white color and was used in Athens and ...
An Ionic gem. The temple of Athena Nike, built in Ionic order of beautiful white Pentelic marble, has columns at the front and back but not on ...
The Temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion are in the Ionic order.
Built around 420 BC, the temple is the earliest fully Ionic temple on the Acropolis. It has a prominent position on a steep bastion at the ...
The parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike surrounded the temple and acted as a
When the newer, Classical temple was built in the fifth century B.C., it no doubt did double duty: it stood as a shrine to Athens' patron goddess, and also acted as a ...
elements from all three Orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian).
The Ionic Order was born in Ionia, a coastal region of central Anatolia, in the early 6th century B.C., there were many Greek settlements in that ...
designed the temple to be of pentelic marble, small in size, and Ionic in order; ...
The Temple of Athena Nike, which celebrates Athenian war victories, was built in the Ionic order. The sculptures from each of these buildings depict scenes ...