Editing Hera (section)

==Temples of Hera==
[[File:Plan of the Temple of Hera (Olympia).svg|thumb|right|280px|Plan of the Temple of Hera (Olympia):Heraion]]
[[File:Pianta hera paestum.jpg|thumb|right|280px|First temple of Hera, Paestum (Basilica)]]

* '''[[Perachora]], Corinth'''. One from the earliest Greek temples was the temple dedicated to  Hera [[Akraia]] at Perachora, built in the  9th century BC. The dimensions of the plan were 5,50x8,00m. A teracotta house-temple model indicates that it was an upsidal building with one room. The walls were made fom small stones and dried bricks. Τhere were two pairs of (probably wooden) columns, and the high-peaked roof was covered with straws.<ref>Spivey p.109</ref>
* '''[[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]]'''. The Heraion was built in late 7th century BC (620 BC) . It was a [[Doric order|Doric]] style [[peripteral]] temple measured 18,75x50,01m at the [[stylobate]]. The number of the originally wooden  [[pteron]] columns was 6x16 (hexastyle). Τhe wooden columns were later replaced with columns from limestone. The temple had [[portico|pronaos]], [[cella]], and the oldest known [[opisthodomos]]. The porches were distyle [[Anta (architecture)|in antis]]. A colossal head of a woman, is probably a part of a statue dedicated to Hera. It was made from limestone.<ref>Robertson p. 62-63,324</ref><ref>Spivey, 135-139</ref>
* '''[[Corfu]]'''. The Archaic temple of Hera was built in 610BC. Large terracotta figures such as lions and gorgoneions decorated the roof of the temple. The temple was completely destroyed by fire in the 5th century BC.<ref>Excavations of Mon Repo-University of Nebraska. [https://cdrhsites.unl.edu/monrepos/evidence/excavations.html Excavations at Mon Repo]</ref>
* '''[[Samos]]'''. The older Heraion was built in 560 BC. It was a dipteral temple with [[Ionic order]] features. It measured 50,50x103,00 m at the [[stylobate]] and the number of [[pteron]] columns was 10x21. The temple formed a unit with the monumental altar of Hera to the east, which shared its alignment and axis. It was constructed partly of limestone and partly of marble. [[Herodotus]] calls [[Rhoecus]] of Samos its first architect. It was the first of the massive Ionic temples.<ref>Robertson p.95,331</ref>
[[File:Heraion de samos essai restitution.jpg|thumb|left|280px|Heraion of Samos. A reconstruction of the "Polycrates temple" (front view)]]
* '''[[Samos]]'''. The new Heraion was built in 525 BC and it is called the "Polycrates temple". The temple measured 54,58x111,50m at the [[stylobate]]. It was dipteral on the flanks and tripteral at the ends. The outer row had 8x24 columns except that at the back there were nine columns. The forms of the capitals resembled the ones at Ephesus, but the volutes were wider.<ref>Robertson p.95-97,332</ref>
* '''[[Selinunte|Selinus]]'''. The [[Doric order|Doric]] temple E (temble of Hera) was built in 490 BC. It measured 25.32x67.82m at the [[stylobate]] and the number of [[pteron]] columns was 6x15. The porches were distyle [[Anta (architecture)|in antis]]<ref>Robertson,327</ref>
[[File:Selinunte-TempleE-Plan-bjs.png|thumb|left|280px|Selinunte-TempleE- Temple of Hera]]
* '''[[Paestum]]'''. The first temple of Hera, the so-called "Basilica", was built in the early 6th century BC. It was an extraordinary building with a central row of inner columns. The Doric style temple measured 24,52x54,30m at the [[stylobate]], and the number of pteron columns was 9x18. There were three columns ''in antis'' in its porch.<ref>Roberson, p. 75,325</ref>
* '''[[Paestum]]'''. A Doric temple dedicated to Hera (the so-called temple of Poseidon) was built in the first half of the 5th century BC and is usually placed later than [[Parthenon]]. The temple measured 24,3X60,00 m at the [[stylobate]]. It was an hexastyle structure and the number of [[pteron]] columns was 6X14.<ref>Robertson, pp. 136,327</ref> The temple was also used to worship [[Zeus]] and another deity, whose identity is unknown. 
 [[File:Agrigento-TempleD-Plan-bjs.png|thumb|right|280px|Agrigento-TempleD-of Hera]]
* '''[[Agrigento]]'''. The temple of Hera (Juno Lacinia)was a Doric style peripteral building, built in 450 BC. It measured 16,90X38,15m at the stylobate and the cella measured 9.45x28,00m. The number of pteron columns was 6X13.<ref>Robertson 327</ref>
* '''[[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]]'''. The predecessor of the Heraion was built in late 7th century BC and has left little traces. The long [[stoa]] of the Heraion is dated from the late 7th to 6th century B.C.E.<ref>Baumbach 2004: 78</ref>
* '''[[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]]'''. The new Heraion was built in c.410BC after the burning of  its predecessor  in 423BC. It  measured 17,40x38,00m at the stylobate and the dimensions of the cella were c.10,00x c.27,00m. The number of pteron columns cannot be specified.<ref>Robertson,328</ref>