Xenocles (architect)

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Xenocles ( Greek  Χενοκλῆς ) was an ancient Greek - Attic architect in the second half of the 5th century BC. Chr.

Xenocles came from the Demos Cholargos of the Phyle Akamantis . Plutarch reports in his biography of Pericles that he had commissioned Xenocles to complete the Demeter sanctuary of Eleusis . He thus completed the plan of Iktinos , which had previously been carried out by the architects Koroibos and Metagenes . His final work was the so-called roof with the Opaion des Telesterions .

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SURNAME Xenocles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Greco-Attic architect
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.