Temple of Apollo Epicurius in Bassae built
419 BCE.
Shown on the map at 37.430°, 21.900°.
Bassae (Latin: Bassae, Ancient Greek: Βάσσαι – Bassai, meaning "little vale in the rocks") is an archaeological site in Oichalia, a municipality in the northeastern part of Messenia, Greece. In classical antiquity, it was part of Arcadia. Bassae lies at an elevation of 1,131 m above sea level on the slopes of Cotylion Mountain. near the village of Skliros, northeast of Figaleia, south of Andritsaina and west of Megalopolis. It is famous for the well-preserved mid- to late-5th century BC Temple of Apollo Epicurius. Although this temple is geographically remote from major polities of ancient Greece, it is one of the most studied ancient Greek temples because of its multitude of unusual features, and because it has remained almost complete to the present day and, next to the Theseum at Athens, the best preserved of the temples of Greece or elsewhere.
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