Ictinus

Iktinos in Wikipedia

Iktinos (in Latin Ictinus) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC.[1][2] Ancient sources identify Iktinos and Kallikrates as co-architects of the Parthenon. Pausanias identifies Iktinos as architect of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. That temple was Doric on the exterior, Ionic on the interior, and incorporated a Corinthian column, the ...

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Ictīnus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἰκτῖνος). One of the most famous architects of Greece; he flourished in the second half of the fifth century B.C., and was a contemporary of Pericles and Phidias. His most famous works were the Parthenon on the Acropolis at Athens, and the temple of Apollo at Bassae, near Phigalia in Arcadia. Of both these edifices important remains are in existen...

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