to Illustrated Sites of Greece Cave and Environs The Stadium at
The Temple of The Theater at Dr. J's Illustrated Temple of
Apollo temple as it survives dates only to the fourth century
BC, but the foundation is original to an earlier version from
the sixth century, which replaces an even older seventh century
version. There would have been two rows of Ionic columns forming
an interior colonnade within the Doric peripteral temple (6 X 15
columns). The pedimental sculpture described by Pausanias has
never been found. authors admired the sixth century temple and
honored it with their art: Euripides' Ion is set in front of the
temple of Apollo; Orestes comes to this very temple in his
flight from the Furies in the third play of Aeschylus' Oresteia;
and Pindar actually wrote his Hymn to Apollo while sitting
inside on an iron chair. It is recorded that the Greek maxim
"Know thyself" was etched into one of the interior walls.
stylobate and many pavement stones have been replaced on the
3-step blue limestone foundati