Theodoros of Phocaea
Theodoros of Phokaia was an architect of ancient Greece who worked in the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC. Worked.
The only source that gives the name is Vitruvius . In his list of older architects who wrote writings about their buildings or their architectural theory , he names Theodoros between Philon of Eleusis , the architect of the naval arsenal in Peiraios of Athens , and Hermogenes , the inventor of the pseudodipteros first implemented at Artemision of Magnesia am Meander . Accordingly, Theodoros wrote a work de tholo qui est Delphis, - "On the Delphic Tholos". It is therefore generally assumed that he was also the architect of the Tholos of Delphi . This around 380 BC The rotunda built in BC opened a small group of particularly valuable sanctuaries that were built in Greece in the 4th century BC. And which also include the Tholos of Epidaurus and the Philippeion in Olympia . The function of these tholos in Delphi, which were partially erected again in 1938, is unclear.
literature
- Ernst Fabricius : Theodoros 193. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen antiquity science (RE). Volume VA, 2, Stuttgart 1934, Sp. 1917.
- Heiner Knell : Theodoros 6. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 325.
- Florian Seiler : Theodoros (III). In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2. Saur, Leipzig 2004, pp. 448-449.
Remarks
- ^ Vitruvius 7 Praefatio 12.
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| SURNAME | Theodoros of Phocaea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Theodorus; Theodorus of Phocaea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Architect of ancient Greece |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century or 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |