visiting Sicily
Agrigento:
The
Temple Of Concord
Is one of the best preserved Doric temples of the ancient Greek world, with the Temple of Hera and Paestum (Posidonion) and the Athenian Theseion. Its perfect state of conservation is due to the fact that it has continued to be used in the course of time; in 597 AD, it was transformed into a Christian basilica by the Agrigentine Bishop Gregory. A peripteral hexastyle temple with 6 x 13 columns, it rises in the middle of the Hill of the Temples, dominating with its elegant proportions the valleys of the ancient urban centre to the north and the valley sloping towards the African sea to the south, as it was seen by the Latin poet Virgil who described it in the Aeneid: "Then Akragas, with lofty summits crown'd, long for the race of warlike steeds renown'd" (transl. by J. Dryden, The Harvard Classics).
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