Dioscuria Temple Castor & Pollux
This faithful image of the Castor & Pollux dioscient temple was manufactured as an architecture model Grand Tour in the years 1780-1820 in Italy in Italy and was taken by mostly very rich tourists or architects to be inspired by this design for their own planned buildings, or even only To have a piece of the flair of the journey!
The valley of the temples (Italian Valle dei Templi) is located on the southwest coast of the Italian Mediterranean island of Sicily, in the south of Agrigento in a hilly valley surrounded by almond trees. The partly well-preserved numerous Greek temples testify to the size, power and high culture of the then Greek cities. When "the most beautiful of mortal cities" the poet Pindar described the city of Agrigentent, at that time Akragas.
The sacral buildings emerged from about 600 V. And were dedicated to Greek deities at first. As from the end of the 3rd century V. Very Sicily dominated by the Romans, the Greek gods were partially replaced by Roman. The temple of Zeus was for the Romans of the Jupiter. Likewise, Hera was replaced by Juno. Besides the temple plants is still the tomb of Theron in the valley, a huge statue beaten into the ground.
Dioscurentem stamp (temple of Castor and Pollux)
The DIOS curtem stamp is a Doric style-built peripheral postmark. He is dedicated to the Diosuren, Pollux and Castor, the twin sons of Leda and Zeus. Zeus attended Leda in the figure of a swan, then Leda brought an egg to the world, from which then the two brothers Pollux and Castor emerged. The immortal Pollux asked Zeus to share his life with his twin brother after Castor had been fatally wounded in a fight. So they lived all their life together, daily changing from the Olympus to Hades. They were worshiped as the gods of light and as a rescuer from the seaside.
The around the middle of the 5th century V. Constructed sacral construction consists of 6 columns on the narrow side and 13 columns on the long side. The focus of the Dioscorentempel was a round and a rectangular altar. At the beginning of the 19th century, some fragments were rebuilt by the sculptor Valerio Villareale and the architect Saverio Cavallari. The temple itself was covered by a low wall.
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