Hermodoros of Salamis

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Hermodoros von Salamis was a Greek architect of the Hellenistic period from Salamis on Cyprus , after the middle of the 2nd century BC. In Rome . There he worked from 146 to 102 BC. BC. The introduction of marble temple construction in Rome is one of his notable achievements. Committed to the architectural forms of the Ionian order , he developed them further and at the same time adapted the tradition of Italian temple building. None of his buildings have survived.

The archaeologically no longer verifiable temple for Jupiter Stator in the southern Martius campus not far from the ancient Circus Flaminius racecourse , an Ionic peripteros probably made of Pentelic marble , went back to Hermodoros . His professional colleague Vitruvius noted that the temple had no back hall. Hermodorus also created the Martian temple (aedes Martis in Circo) in the southern Marshland, probably shortly afterwards (around 132 BC ) . It was the spoils of victory.

Hermodoros is said to have built / rebuilt (?) Two ship houses for the Roman navy on the banks of the Tiber . Cicero reports on this as part of the examination of artistic skills in De oratore . In 1890 only a mole remnant of this facility was recovered from under the destroyed Teatro Apollo .

There are speculations about further building investments.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Werner Müller: Architects in the world of antiquity . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7338-0096-6 , p. 158 f.
  2. ↑ Vitruvius 3.2.5.
  3. ↑ Velleius Paterculus , Historiae Romanae 1,11,3 and 5
  4. ↑ Pliny , Naturalis historia 36,26; Cornelius Nepos , fragment 13 stalk from Priscianus , Institutiones grammaticae 8,4,17.
  5. ↑ Cicero, De oratore I 14, 62.

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SURNAME Hermodoros of Salamis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermodorus of Salamis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek architect
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr.