- A
heroön or
heroon (plural heroa) (/hɪˈroʊ.ɒn/;
Ancient Gr****: ἡρῷον, romanized: hērôion, pl. ἡρῷα, hērôia), also
latinized as heroum, is a
shrine dedicated...
- The
Heroon of
Trysa is the
modern name for an
ancient tomb,
built around 380 BCE in Trysa, in
ancient Lycia in
southwest Turkey. It was
discovered in 1841...
- The
Heroon at
Nemea is a part of the
larger Pan****enic
sanctuary of Zeus in the North-West Argolid. A
small feature of the
sanctuary as a whole, the heroon...
- the
remains of a man and a
woman under a
large structure called by some a
hērōön (ἡρῷον) or "hero's grave." The
other grave held four
horses which appear...
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policies of his father.
Several of Ai-Khanoum's key buildings,
including the
heroön (hero's shrine), the
northern fortifications, and a shrine, were constructed...
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University of California,
discovered the
likely site of the hero
shrine (
heroön) of
Opheltes in 1979. The
excavations have
uncovered an open-air precinct...
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whose sisters were barren, and he
still childless himself.
There was a
heroon of
Aigeus in Athens,
called Aigeion (Αἰγεῖον). Catullus, LXIV. Plutarch...
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lower parts of
their walls, and the main
roads remain paved. A low-built
heroon or
shrine memorial to an
unknown local hero
survived intact; the contents...
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architectural intermediary between the
Christian martyrium and the
classical heröon is no
longer credited. The
magnificence of
early Christian basilicas reflected...
- (empty tomb)
Mortuary house Mausoleum Catacombs Pyramid Pillar tomb
Heroon,
herõon or
heroum Sarcophagus (ornate types,
otherwise being any stone-built...
