Description of Greece 9.2.7

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
Description of Greece 9.2.7
Quotation
Πλαταιεῦσι δὲ ναός ἐστιν Ἥρας, θέας ἄξιος μεγέθει τε καὶ ἐς τῶν ἀγαλμάτων τὸν κόσμον.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Cultic: Building: Temple
Architecture: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Temple of Hera at Plataea
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Deity
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Cultic: Object: Effigies/ Representations
Visual Work: Material: Marble
Medium/a Ornamenting
Images/ statues. The first two, in Pentelic marble, are of Rhea carrying a stone to Cronus, and Hera standing upright. There is another image of Hera, seated
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Sculptors Praxiteles (Rhea
upright Hera) and Callimachus (seated Hera)
Item Identifier
A00997
Determination
Derived directly from text