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Temple C
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History
of Construction and Use:
Temple C and its precinct are
located slightly to the northwest of the forum and the West
Forum temples, on the road to Sikyon. Although the archaeological
remains are not well preserved, the building was a Doric tetrastyle
prostyle temple. Standing on a three-step krepidoma, rather
than the typical Roman podium, Temple C measured roughly 11.3
X 19 m on the stylobate and was considerably larger than the
other West Forum temples.
A Doric portico surrounded Temple
C on the south, west and north. Principle access to the precinct
was from the east where a Doric porch faced the road to Sikyon.
There was also a rear entry from the west portico to the Glauke
fountain house which it backed on to. Temple C and its surrounding
portico do not share the same alignment. Temple C was probably
constructed in the late Augustan period with the portico and
porch built later. It is not known to which deity the temple
was dedicated.
Testimonia:
- Pausanias
2.2.6-8
- Suetonius, Life of Vespasian
17
- Plutarch, De Anima,
fragment 7, no 11.
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Figure 1
Restored plan of Temple C in Corinth,
A.D. 150
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Bibliography:
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Monuments in the Lower Agora and North of the Archaic Temple.
Princeton, 1951.
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Stillwell, R. Corinth
I, ii, Architecture. Cambridge, 1941, 131-165.
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Williams, C.K. II.
"Corinth 1974: Forum Southwest," Hesperia 44 (1975) 1-50.
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Williams, C.K. II.
"Corinth 1983: The Route to Sikyon," Hesperia 53 (1984)
83-122.
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Williams, C.K. II.
"A Re-Evaluation of Temple E and the West end of the forum in
Corinth," in The Greek Renaissance in the Roman Empire (Institute
of Classical Studies Bulletin Supplement 55), eds. Walker and
Averil, 1989, 156-162, plates 60-62.
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Williams, C.K. II.
"Excavations at Corinth, 1989: The Temenos of Temple E," Hesperia
59 (1990) 325-369.
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Williams, C.K. II.
"A Re-founding of Corinth: Some Roman Religious Attitudes," in
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Thompson. London, 1987, 26-37.
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