Temple C (Apollo?)
Good part of the multi site: Archaeological Park of Selinunte and Cave di Cusa
Acropolis of Selinunte. Dimensions: length. 64 m - width. 24 mh 8,62 m. Columns: 6 × 14. Built in 550 BC It is characterized at the E by the entrance preceded by a staircase of 8 steps. Following restoration work begun in 1925 some columns were raised. In the temple were found: from the decoration of the frame some fragments of polychrome terracotta (red, brown, purple); from the decoration of the pediment a gigantic clay gorgoneion (h. 2,50 m); from the facade three metopes representing: Perseus, in the presence of Athena, in the act of decapitating Gorgon who holds Pegasus to himself; Heracles, having captured the Cèrcopi (goblins-thieves), carries them away suspended from a pole upside down; the quadriga of Apollo seen from the front (the god was flanked by the figures of Helios and Selene: incomplete), which are all in the Archaeological Museum of Palermo.
Hercules and the Cercopes
Perseus killing the Medusa
Quadriga of Apollo
For details on the individual sites located in Selinunte and in the immediate vicinity, see the sub-archive "Selinunte and surroundings "
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
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