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Anakeion

The Anakeion or Anacaeum (from the Greek Ἀνάκειον), also known as the Sanctuary of the Dioskouroi, was a temple in Athens, which was situated near the Acropolis and dedicated to Castor and Pollux.[1]: 20 

Name and location edit

 
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by Peter Paul Rubens. Alte Pinakothek

The name of the temple derives from the Greek Ἄνακες (an archaic form of ἄνακτες, "lords" or "kings"), the title by which the Dioskouroi, Castor and Pollux, twin sons of Zeus and Leda, were commonly known in Attica.[2]: 80–81 

The Old Agora, the predecessor of the Classical Agora, was used in the fifth century and before as a rallying point, and references in Andokides and Thucydides to musters at the Anakeion in 415 and 411 BCE have led scholars to conclude that the Anakeion may have lain within the vicinity of the Old Agora, perhaps to the east of the Acropolis.[3]: 295–297 [nb 1]

Decoration edit

The decoration of the Anakeion, according to Pausanias, fell to Mikon and Polygnotos. The former depicted the Argonauts, the followers of Jason, with particular attention to Akastos and his horses. Polygnotos depicted the Rape of the Leukippides: the forcible abduction and marriage of Phoebe and Hilaeira, daughters of Leukippos, by the Dioskouroi.[4]: 1.18.1  This painting may have earned him his Athenian citizenship.[2] : 1212 

Notes edit

  1. ^ The position of the Old Agora is disputed, and it may instead have lain north or north-east of the Acropolis.[3]: 287–286 

References edit

  1. ^ Olga Palagia; J. J. Pollitt (21 January 1999). Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-65738-9. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b Hornblower, Simon, ed. (2003). The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198606419.
  3. ^ a b Robertson, Noel (Jul–Sep 1998). "The City Center of Archaic Athens". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 67 (3): 283–302. JSTOR 2668475.
  4. ^ Jones, W. H.; Ormerod, H. A. (1918). Pausanias Description of Greece. Harvard University Press. Retrieved 15 January 2013.


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