Ancient Greek Monuments
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PREHISTORIC PERIOD
In the Islands about Santorin, remains of houses antedating 1500 B.C. at Tiryns the Acropolis, walls, and miscellaneous ruins; the like also at Mycenae, besides various tombs; walls, gates, and houses of six successively superposed cities at Hissarlik ( Troy, Ilios.); walls and gates at Samos, Thoricus, Menidi, Athens, etc. Extensive palace ruins in Crete.
ARCHAIC PERIOD
Doric Temples at Metapontium by Durm assigned to 610 B.C.), Selinus, Agrigentum, Paestum; at Athens the first Parthenon; in Asia Minor the primitive Ionic Artemisium at Ephesus and the Heraion at Samos, the latter the oldest of colossal Greek temples.
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD
At Agrigentum, temples of Concord, Castor and Pollux, Demeter, Aesculapius, all circ. 480 B.C.; temples at Selinus and Segesta; at Delphi, temple of Apollo, variuos shrines, etc.
PERICLEAN PERIOD
In Athens the Ionic temple on the Illissus, destroyed during the last century; on Cape Suinum the temple of Athena, 430 B.C. partly standing; at Nemea, the temple of Zeus; at Tegea, the temple of Athena Elea ( 400 B.C.); at Rhamnus, the temples of Themis and of Nemesis: at Argos, two temples, stoa, and other buildings; all these were Doric.
ALEXANDRIAN PERIOD
The temple of Dionysus at Teos; temple of Artemis Leucophryne at Magnesia, both about 330 B.C. and of the Ionic order; at Epidaurus, temple of Aesculapius, 380 B.C.; theatre; circular tholos (or well-house), Corinthian internally, Doric externally, about 360 B.C.; portico, temple of Artemis, etc.
DECADENCE AND ROMAN PERIOD
At Athens the Stoa of Eumenes, circ. 170 B.C.; the monument of Philopappus on the Museum hill, 110 A.D.; the Gymnasium of Hadrian, 114 to 137 A.D.; the last two of the Corinthian order.
THEATRES
Besides those already mentioned there are important remains of theatres at Argos, Segesta, Lassus ( 400 B.C.), Delos, Sicyon, Patara, and Thoricus; besides many others of less importace scattered through the Hellenic world. At Taormina are extensive ruins of a large Greek theatre rebuilt in the Roman period.
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