Mar 31, 2019
Ionic Temple
Metapontion, Magna Graecia, Italy
480-470 BCE Ionic order
The temple was dedicated to an unknown deity and stood on the site of an earlier temple dedicated to Artemis and once had 8x20 columns. Impressive capitals remain in situ which are richly decorated with swirls and swastikas. The building was unlike any in mainland Greece and is further evidence that the colonies of ancient Greece went on their own road of political and artistic development to become fully independent and influential cities in their own right