Apollo Epikourios at Bassae

• Northeast of Olympia

• Doric peripteral temple; 6 by 15 columns.

• 38.24 meters by 14.48 meters

• Designed by Iktinos.

• 450 - 425 BCE

• Exterior Doric metopes survive only in fragments.

• Interior Ionic frieze above the Ionic and Corinthian columns of the cella.

• Rediscovered in 1765; sculptures removed to British Museum in London.

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