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Headword: Ἑκατόμπεδος νεώς
Adler number: epsilon,368
Translated headword: Hundred-foot temple
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The Parthenon at Athens.
Also [sc. attested is] Hundred-footer: Lycurgus [sc. calls it so].[1] The Parthenon used to be called Hekatompedos by some because of beauty and graceful proportions, not because of size.[2]
Greek Original:
Ἑκατόμπεδος νεώς: ὁ Ἀθήνησι παρθενών. καὶ Ἑκατόμπεδον: Λυκοῦργος. ὁ παρθενὼν ὑπό τινων Ἑκατόμπεδος ἐκαλεῖτο διὰ κάλλος καὶ εὐρυθμίαν, οὐ διὰ μέγεθος.
Notes:
[1] i.e. the adjective alone (with a neuter noun, probably hieron, understood); Lycurgus fr. 3 Conomis.
[2] This polemical (and counter-intuitive) point of view is not much more palatable in Harpokration s.v., where it is credited to "Menekles or Kallikrates in the (treatise) Concerning Athens" (FGrH 370 F3). But note in any case the existence of hekatompedon temples in e.g. Samos and elsewhere, characteristically as those of the patron deity of the city in question.
Keywords: architecture; definition; historiography; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 October 2000@08:34:46.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Raised status.) on 30 October 2000@15:26:34.
David Whitehead (added keywords) on 17 September 2002@06:49:55.
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