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at Athens. Of the last we have exact knowledge from an inscription. E. A. Gardner observes that it "is perhaps known to us more in detail than any other lost monument of antiquity." It was to hold the rigging of the
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of the 4th century BC, is known as the planner of two important works: the
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of temples, and on the naval arsenal which was at the port of
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Index

Darius Philon
Philo (disambiguation)
Greek
Φίλων
Athenian
architect
portico
Hall of the Mysteries
Eleusis
Demetrius Phalereus
Lycurgus
arsenal
galleys
Athenian democracy
Vitruvius
proportions
Piraeus
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Roman conquest of Athens in 86 BC
"Philon, A very eminent architect at Athens"
Chisholm 1911
Gardner
Chisholm 1911
public domain
Chisholm, Hugh
Philon
Encyclopædia Britannica
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