The Temple of Athena Nike is a small Ionic temple on a bastion at the southwest corner of the Acropolis of Athens, next to the entrance of the Propylaea, dedicated to Athena as goddess of victory. It was designed by the architect Kallikrates and built during the Peloponnesian War, when Athenians had good reason to pray for victory. The temple has four columns at each end and is decorated with a frieze showing battles between Greeks and others, and a parapet with sculptures of winged Victories, which are among the finest works of classical Greek relief sculpture. The Ottomans dismantled it in the seventeenth century to make a bastion, and it was rebuilt in the 1830s and again in the twentieth century.
Before and after
- from 431 BCE to 404 BCEPeloponnesian War
- from c. 430s BCE to 470sStatue of Zeus at Olympia
- c. 430s BCEHerodotus writes the Histories
- c. 430 BCEBirth of Xenophon
- c. 420s BCEConstruction of Temple of Athena Nike
- 425 BCEDeath of Herodotus
- c. 421 BCEConstruction of the Erechtheion
- from 415 BCE to 413 BCESicilian Expedition
- 406 BCEDeath of Sophocles
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