• Ictinus (redirect from Iktinos)
    Ictinus (/ɪkˈtaɪnəs/; Greek: Ἰκτῖνος, Iktinos) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. Ancient sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates as...
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    most likely never had the cult title parthénos". The ancient architects Iktinos and Callicrates appear to have called the building Ἑκατόμπεδος (Hekatómpedos;...
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    Apollo Epikourios ("Apollo the helper"), was built in 430 BC, designed by Iktinos. It combined Doric and Ionic elements, and the earliest use of a column...
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    than 3000 years and longer than 71 kilometres (44 mi),) the Parthenon by Iktinos in Ancient Greece (447–438 BC), the Appian Way by Roman engineers (c. 312...
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    probably the plague of Athens of 430 BC. It was supposedly designed by Iktinos, architect at Athens of the Parthenon. Modern scholars such as A. W. Lawrence...
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    later due to Pericles' influence. At some point in the 5th century BCE, Iktinos, the great architect of the Parthenon, built the Telesterion big enough...
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  • produces his first play. Pericles commissions the architects Kallikrates and Iktinos to design a larger temple for the Parthenon and the construction begins...
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    nouvelle Ornithologie Elémentaire. The genus name derives from the Greek iktinos, for "kite". Wilson also gave the Mississippi kite its English-language...
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    into Stirps Milvina, the kites. Earlier, the terms "kite" in English or "iktinos" in Greek referred only to the red or black (milvine) kites. French ornithologists...
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    174°14′W / 79.56°S 174.24°W / -79.56; -174.24 (Ictinus) 58.03 1976 Iktinos, Ancient Greek architect WGPSN Imhotep 17°58′S 37°29′W / 17.97°S 37.48°W...
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