- An
opisthodomos (ὀπισθόδομος, 'back room') can
refer to
either the rear room of an
ancient Gr****
temple or to the
inner shrine, also
called the adyton...
-
similar room at the back of the naos is
called the
opisthodomos.
There is no door
connecting the
opisthodomos with the naos; its
existence is
necessitated entirely...
- man-made events. In the
second century AD, one of the two
columns in the
opisthodomos was
still oak. As the
replacements took
place at
widely differing periods...
- a
cella housing cult
images at the
centre of the structure, and an
opisthodomos. The
alignment of the
antae of the
pronaos with the
third flank columns...
- on a 15.5 by 30.5 m platform; it had a
distyle in
antis cella with an
opisthodomos and a pronaos. All but
three of the
outer columns were monolithic. There...
-
temples it has
three "rooms" or porches: the pronaos, plus a naos and an
opisthodomos. The naos may have
housed a cult
statue of Apollo,
although it is also...
- 454 BC,
since the
treasury of the
Delian League was
transferred in its
opisthodomos. The
temple may have been
burnt down
during 406/405 BC as
Xenophon mentions...
- ὄπισθεν (ópisthen), ὀπίσθιος anopisthograph, opisthion, opisthobranch,
opisthodomos, opisthoglyphous, opisthognathous, opisthograph, opisthokont, opisthosoma...
- δῶμα, δῶματος, δομή, δόμος (dómos), δέμας (démas) apodeme, monodomy,
opisthodomos,
polydomy dem-
people Gr**** δῆμος (dêmos) Damocles, demagogue, deme,...
-
mirrored by a
similar arrangement at the back of the building, the
opisthodomos. The
building sat on a
crepidoma (platform) of
three unequal steps, the...
