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- A heroön or heroon (plural heroa) (/hɪˈroʊ.ɒn/; Ancient Gr****: ἡρῷον, romanized: hērôion, pl. ἡρῷα, hērôia), also latinized as heroum, is a shrine dedicated...
- The Heroon of Trysa is the modern name for an ancient tomb, built around 380 BCE in Trysa, in ancient Lycia in southwest Turkey. It was discovered in 1841...
- the remains of a man and a woman under a large structure called by some a hērōön (ἡρῷον) or "hero's grave." The other grave held four horses which appear...
- policies of his father. Several of Ai-Khanoum's key buildings, including the heroön (hero's shrine), the northern fortifications, and a shrine, were constructed...
- The Heroon at Nemea is a part of the larger Pan****enic sanctuary of Zeus in the North-West Argolid. A small feature of the sanctuary as a whole, the heroon...
- University of California, discovered the likely site of the hero shrine (heroön) of Opheltes in 1979. The excavations have uncovered an open-air precinct...
- of certain tomb cults in the Archaic period." Such Archaic sites as the heroön at Lefkandi and that close to the West Gate at Eretria cannot be distinguished...
- lower parts of their walls, and the main roads remain paved. A low-built heroon or shrine memorial to an unknown local hero survived intact; the contents...
- whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself. There was a heroon of Aigeus in Athens, called Aigeion (Αἰγεῖον). Catullus, LXIV. Plutarch...
- Divo Giulio), also known as Temple of the Deified Julius Caesar, delubrum, heroon or Temple of the Comet Star, is an ancient structure in the Roman Forum...