The Philippeion

The Philippeion

1. Tholos

   • Ionic columns in peristyle
     • 3 stepped sylobate

2. 338BC

3. Philip of Macedon

   • Celebrating military and athletic victory
   • Proof of his "greekness"
     • Pan-Hellenic sanctuary after joining greek polis to on empire

4. Filled with statues of Philip, wife, parents and son Alexander the great

   • Chryselephantine
     • Sculpted by Leochares

5. Walls made of poros marble

   • Painted to look like brick
     • Marble roof tiles
       • Marble gutters- ostentatious

6. Plinth for statues (semicircular in the naos)

7. Glass windows either side of door

   • More light to make statues look better

8. Flagstone floor between naos and collonade

   • Rhomboid slabs at exact degrees of a circle

9. Moved tenemos wall to make room for it

   • Very powerful

10. Inside were 9 half columns (in wall) corinthian

    • Corresponded to intercolumnation gaps in colonade

11. Entablature

    • Plain frieze
    • Topped with dentils

12. Dimensions

    • Outer ring- 2.3m wide
    • 15m diameter
    • Inner ring 1.2m wide and higher
      • 7 m diameter
    • Outer columns 3.5m tall

13. Unorthodox Capitals- inner spirals on volutes are missing

14. Bronze poppy head akroterion