Location information

The tomb of Lygdamis

Lygdamis has his tomb near the quarries at Syracuse.

Perseus: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis
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Delphi, Treasury of the Syracusans

Site: Delphi
Type: Treasury
Summary: Temple-like building; in the southern half of the Sanctuary of Apollo, east of the curve where the Sacred Way 1st curves and ascends to the northeast.
Date: ca. 550 B.C.
Period: Archaic

Plan:
Believed by Dinsmoor to be Doric prostyle tetrastyle.

History:
No detailed plan available and the identity of this treasury is much debated. Destroyed after 413 B.C.

This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 2 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.

• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...

Olympia, Treasury of the Syracusans (2)

Site: Olympia
Type: Treasury
Summary: Small temple-like building; on the north side of the Sanctuary of Zeus (Altis), the 2nd treasury from the west on the Treasury Terrace.
Date: ca. 480 B.C.
Period: Classical

Plan:
Cella opening south onto a Doric distyle in antis pronaos.

History:
Built by Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse.

This text is cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 1 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.

• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...