Temples - Pompeii - Temple of Apollo

Question 1

Where did the temple face?

Answer 1

Faced north side of the town

Question 2

Where did the cult of Apollo originate from?

Answer 2

Greece

Question 3

Where was the temple in the centre of?

Answer 3

A sacred enclosure

Question 4

What was it surrounded by?

Answer 4

Tuff columns (on all four sides)

Question 5

What were the surrounding columns originally like?

Answer 5

Grooved and Iconic capitals

Question 6

What were the orginal grooved iconic capitals replaced with?

Answer 6

Painted stucco columns (yellow, red, dark blue)

Question 7

What was the doric architrave contain?

Answer 7

Metetopes and triglyphs

Question 8

How many columns did the peripteroes?

Answer 8

48

Question 9

In the peripteroes, with the 48 columns, what order did they come from?

Answer 9

Ionic

Question 10

What is to the front of the steps?

Answer 10

White marble alter on a travertine base

Question 11

What is to the side of the steps?

Answer 11

Iconic column that supported a sun dial

Question 12

How many cella’s did the temple have?

Answer 12

One central one

Question 13

What was the collonade made of?

Answer 13

Tufa

Question 14

What was the colonnade fronted by?

Answer 14

6 corinthian columns

Question 15

What was the doric architrave of metopes and triglyphs (pre-roman) replaced with?

Answer 15

Frieze with griffins, festoons and foliage

Question 16

What statues were in the forecourt?

Answer 16

2 states of Apollo and Diana

Question 17

What would the interior have been like?

Answer 17

Dark

Question 18

Why did Augustus restore this temple?

Answer 18

He favoured the god Apollo

Question 19

What was stored nearby?

Answer 19

The town’s official weights and measures data

Question 20

What is this temple a good example of?

Answer 20

Early roman development of greek temple design