Talk:Hekatompedon

Merge with Old Temple of Athena

Unfortunately, User:Marcok didn't notice that the two buildings are different. Read here from Acropolis of Athens#Archaic Acropolis:

A temple to Athena Polias (protectress of the city) was erected around 570–550 BC. This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the Hekatompedon (Greek for "hundred–footed"), Ur-Parthenon (German for "original Parthenon" or "primitive Parthenon"), H–Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue. Whether this temple replaced an older one, or just a sacred precinct or altar, is not known. Probably, the Hekatompedon was built where the Parthenon now stands.[15]

Between 529–520 BC yet another temple was built by the Peisistratids, the Old Temple of Athena, usually referred to as the Arkhaios Neōs (ἀρχαῖος νεώς, "ancient temple"). This temple of Athena Polias was built upon the Doerpfeld foundations,[16] between the Erechtheion and the still-standing Parthenon. Arkhaios Neōs was destroyed by the Persian invasion in 480 BC. However, the temple was probably reconstructed since in 454 BC the treasury of the Delian League was transferred in its opisthodomos. The temple may have been burnt down in 406/405 BC as Xenophon mentions that the old temple of Athena was set on fire. Pausanias does not mention it in his 2nd century AD Description of Greece.[17]

That is, Hekatompedon was built around 570 BC and the Old Temple of Athena around 520 BC. From both temples there have been found sculptures that are displayed separately at the Acropolis Museum. Dimboukas (talk) 22:22, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. However de:Hekatompedon says that the Hekatompedon on the Acropolis was the Old Temple of Athena. --Marcok (talk) 18:42, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 25 July 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Andrewa (talk) 09:59, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

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Hekatompedon temple → Hekatompedon – The article on the temple is the logical WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "Hekatompedon". Currently, that term links to Hecatompedum, a two-line stub about an obscure city in Epirus. The latter page get around 0-4 views a day, whereas the temple page tends to get between 24 and 40, and is far better attested on e.g. Google books. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 08:57, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom, and add hatnote to the city.--Ortizesp (talk) 12:18, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose the article is for the temple. It is better to change the redirect. D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:10, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

  @D.S. Lioness:: if the name in common use for the temple is "the Hekatompedon", and the temple is the most likely target for searches for "Hekatompedon", the naming guidelines state that "Hekatompedon" should be the title of the article on the temple. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 17:14, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

  I agree. So you want to remove the word Temple ? D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:16, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

  Precisely. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 17:50, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

• Support Apparently the main topic. Azuredivay (talk) 04:26, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

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