Cape Sounion temple of Poseidon 1973
Ancient peoples living in their native landscapes without yet our means of domination were profoundly keen observers. Sites of extraordinary power become dwelling places of gods marked with structures of the greatest care and beauty. One such site is Cape Sounion. First written of in Homer’s Odyssey in the 8th century BC it was a place of worship to Poseidon, god of the sea. Destroyed by the Persians the original temple was rebuilt by Pericles in 440 BC.
As ancient Rome’s religious tolerance succumbed to the new “one true faith” of Christianity the emperors used every means to enforce religious unity. The whole philosophical and religious understandings of the ancient world were pushed aside and suppressed. In 399 AD emperor Arcadius ordered all non-Christian temples in the empire to be destroyed.
After standing for 800 years this temple was one of thousands destroyed. With them the pinnacles of a civilizations art and architecture were erased.
The philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote of this temple: “This single gesture of the land suggests the invisible nearness of the divine. The people of this country knew how to inhabit and demarcate the world against the barbarous in honour of the seat of the gods. They knew how to praise what is great and by acknowledging it, to bring themselves in front of the sublime, founding, in this way, a world.”
As ancient Rome’s religious tolerance succumbed to the new “one true faith” of Christianity the emperors used every means to enforce religious unity. The whole philosophical and religious understandings of the ancient world were pushed aside and suppressed. In 399 AD emperor Arcadius ordered all non-Christian temples in the empire to be destroyed.
After standing for 800 years this temple was one of thousands destroyed. With them the pinnacles of a civilizations art and architecture were erased.
The philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote of this temple: “This single gesture of the land suggests the invisible nearness of the divine. The people of this country knew how to inhabit and demarcate the world against the barbarous in honour of the seat of the gods. They knew how to praise what is great and by acknowledging it, to bring themselves in front of the sublime, founding, in this way, a world.”
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Cape Sounion temple of Poseidon 1973
Ancient peoples living in their native landscapes without yet our means of domination were profoundly keen observers. Sites of extraordinary power become dwelling places of gods marked with structures of the greatest care and beauty. One such site is Cape Sounion. First written of in Homer’s Odyssey in the 8th century BC it was a place of worship to Poseidon, god of the sea. Destroyed by the Persians the original temple was rebuilt by Pericles in 440 BC.
As ancient Rome’s religious tolerance succumbed to the new “one true faith” of Christianity the emperors used every means to enforce religious unity. The whole philosophical and religious understandings of the ancient world were pushed aside and suppressed. In 399 AD emperor Arcadius ordered all non-Christian temples in the empire to be destroyed.
After standing for 800 years this temple was one of thousands destroyed. With them the pinnacles of a civilizations art and architecture were erased.
The philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote of this temple: “This single gesture of the land suggests the invisible nearness of the divine. The people of this country knew how to inhabit and demarcate the world against the barbarous in honour of the seat of the gods. They knew how to praise what is great and by acknowledging it, to bring themselves in front of the sublime, founding, in this way, a world.”
As ancient Rome’s religious tolerance succumbed to the new “one true faith” of Christianity the emperors used every means to enforce religious unity. The whole philosophical and religious understandings of the ancient world were pushed aside and suppressed. In 399 AD emperor Arcadius ordered all non-Christian temples in the empire to be destroyed.
After standing for 800 years this temple was one of thousands destroyed. With them the pinnacles of a civilizations art and architecture were erased.
The philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote of this temple: “This single gesture of the land suggests the invisible nearness of the divine. The people of this country knew how to inhabit and demarcate the world against the barbarous in honour of the seat of the gods. They knew how to praise what is great and by acknowledging it, to bring themselves in front of the sublime, founding, in this way, a world.”
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Greece
Date:
Location:
Photographer:
GREECE
Cape Sounion temple of Poseidon 1973
Ancient peoples living in their native landscapes without yet our means of domination were profoundly keen observers. Sites of extraordinary power become dwelling places of gods marked with structures of the greatest care and beauty. One such site is Cape Sounion. First written of in Homer’s Odyssey in the 8th century BC it was a place of worship to Poseidon, god of the sea. Destroyed by the Persians the original temple was rebuilt by Pericles in 440 BC.
As ancient Rome’s religious tolerance succumbed to the new “one true faith” of Christianity the emperors used every means to enforce religious unity. The whole philosophical and religious understandings of the ancient world were pushed aside and suppressed. In 399 AD emperor Arcadius ordered all non-Christian temples in the empire to be destroyed.
After standing for 800 years this temple was one of thousands destroyed. With them the pinnacles of a civilizations art and architecture were erased.
The philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote of this temple: “This single gesture of the land suggests the invisible nearness of the divine. The people of this country knew how to inhabit and demarcate the world against the barbarous in honour of the seat of the gods. They knew how to praise what is great and by acknowledging it, to bring themselves in front of the sublime, founding, in this way, a world.”
As ancient Rome’s religious tolerance succumbed to the new “one true faith” of Christianity the emperors used every means to enforce religious unity. The whole philosophical and religious understandings of the ancient world were pushed aside and suppressed. In 399 AD emperor Arcadius ordered all non-Christian temples in the empire to be destroyed.
After standing for 800 years this temple was one of thousands destroyed. With them the pinnacles of a civilizations art and architecture were erased.
The philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote of this temple: “This single gesture of the land suggests the invisible nearness of the divine. The people of this country knew how to inhabit and demarcate the world against the barbarous in honour of the seat of the gods. They knew how to praise what is great and by acknowledging it, to bring themselves in front of the sublime, founding, in this way, a world.”