Philon
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Philon (Template:Langx), Athenian architect of the 4th century BC, is known as the planner of two important works: the portico of twelve Doric columns to the great Hall of the Mysteries at Eleusis (work commissioned by Demetrius of Phalerum about 318 BC) and, under the administration of Lycurgus, an arsenal in Piraeus, Athens' port city.[1][2] Of the last we have exact knowledge from an inscription. E. A. Gardner observes that it "is perhaps known to us more in detail than any other lost monument of antiquity."[3] It was to hold the rigging of the galleys; and was so contrived that all its contents were visible from a central hall, and so liable to the inspection of the Athenian democracy. He is known to have written books on the Athenian arsenal and on the proportions of temple buildings,Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. but these are now lost.
Vitruvius (vii, introduction) quotes Philon on the proportions of temples, and on the naval arsenal which was at the port of Piraeus.
Philon's arsenal was destroyed by the forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla in the Roman conquest of Athens in 86 BC.
Notes
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smith, Sir William, ed. (1859). "Philon, A very eminent architect at Athens". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. III. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 314.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Marconi, Clemente (2015). The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman art and architecture. Oxford handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-19-978330-4.
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References
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