Temple of the Delians

This was one of slightly more than a dozen Panhellenic sanctuaries in Ancient Greek religion and attracted visitors from across the Hellenic world.

The temple was principally destroyed during the Mithridatic Wars and only the lower foundations, stylobate, and fragmented columns remain today.

Normally the masons then used scaffolds to complete the fluting for the rest of the shaft,[2] but in this temple this final stage was never done.

[3] One of the treasures of the temple was a statue of Apollo made by "Angelion and Tektaos, sons of Dionysiodotos", who depicted the god with three Charites (Graces) in his hand.

Strabo describes the myth behind the ancient worship of Apollo and Artemis in Delos: According to Strabo, Apollo and his twin Artemis were both worshipped as gods of healing and as such also identified with Helios and Selene respectively: Strabo described the festival of Delos as an occasion of both religious worship as well as commercial opportunities, but also the destruction of the temple: Pausanias describes the destruction and sacrilege of the temple by Mithridates:

19th-century reconstruction of the Temple of Apollo
Plan of the Sanctuary of Apollo
Shaft, capital, and entablature of the unfinished columns - James Athenian Stuart and Nicholas Revett , 1794
Remains of the Temple of the Delians