Antiphilos (architect)
Antiphilos ( ancient Greek Ἀντίφιλος , Latinized Antiphilus) was a Greek architect who worked in the Zeus sanctuary in Olympia in the late Archaic or early classical period .
According to Pausanias, Antiphilos built the treasure house of the Syracusans together with the architects Pothaios and Megakles . Because of the three Carthaginian linen armor kept in it , which the tyrant of Syracuse Gelon after the battle of Himera in 480 BC. Brought there as consecration gifts, the building is misleadingly referred to by Pausanias as the "treasure house of the Carthaginians". The architects probably executed the building from the design to the end of the construction work, either jointly or one after the other on their own responsibility.
Only the foundation and the remains of individual components have been preserved from the building. Reconstructions of the earlier appearance revealed that it was a small temple with two front columns in a Doric column order . It had a " Sicilian roof " with no sculptures in the gable and a frieze running around the whole building . Above the frieze, there was a geison with the mutuli on the underside, which are common in Doric temples. It is therefore assumed that the treasury was built in the first quarter of the 5th century BC. Was donated by Gelon. Older dating attempts, according to which the building was erected in the 6th century BC. Is to be settled, are considered to be invalid.
literature
- Ernst Fabricius : Antiphilos 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2525.
- Guido Achille Mansuelli : Antiphilos 1 . In: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (editor): Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale , Volume 1. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1958.
- Werner Müller: Antiphilos (1) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , pp. 57-58.
Remarks
- ^ Pausanias 6:19 , 7.
- ↑ a b Werner Müller: Antiphilos (1) . In: Künstlerlexikon der Antike , p. 57.
- ^ Alfred Mallwitz , in: Report on the excavations in Olympia , Volume 7. de Gruyter, Berlin 1961, pp. 29–55; ders., Olympia and its buildings . Prestel, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7913-0320-1 , p. 169 with Fig. 129 (attempted reconstruction).
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| SURNAME | Antiphilus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἀντίφιλος, Antiphilus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC Chr. |