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ICTINUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 275 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ICTINUS  , the architect of the

Parthenon at Athens, of the Hall of the Mysteries at
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Eleusis, and of the temple of Apollo at Bassae, near Phigalia . He was thus active about 450-430 B.C . We know little else about him; but the remains of his two
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great temples testify to his wonderful mastery of the principles of Greek architecture .

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