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Title: Plan and Section of the Tholos
Columns on outside
Inner wall columns on inside
Originally dedicated to the worship of an Earth
Goddess, the shrine was eventually occupied by
Olympian deities, Athena in particular.
A guardian of wisdom and spiritual consciousness,
Athena continued the ancient veneration of the
feminine principle and brought devotion to the
Earth Mother into the Classical Age of Greece.
The Tholos temple, built in the early 4th century BC,
has an unusual circular shape.
This shape and the leaf-adorned capitals of its
Corinthian columns are representations of the sacred
forest groves of the old Earth Goddess religion.
Outside Doric inside Corinthian Columns attached