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 Tegea
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Just seven kilometers southeast of Tripolis lies Tegea, where Heracles is supposed to have ravished Auge, triggering the sad sequence of events narrated in the myth of Auge and Telephos, her son by Heracles. The site is of archaeological interest because of the remains of the Doric propteral temple hexastyle, dedicated to Athena Alea. Built in local white marble, it was constructed and decorated between 370 and 350 B.C. by Skopas, one of the greatest sculptors in all of ancient Greek history. The temple's proportions are expressed through the ratios between various architectural components and the overall dimensions. The slender columns of the peristasis, the light entablature, the cella adorned by half-columns, and the optical corridors, all combine to render the temple one of ancient Greece's best architectural experiments, second only to the Parthenon. The short sides of the temples were decorated by sculpted metopes, depicting on the eastern side, the fight between Heracles and Kepheus, and on the west, the myth of Telephos. The pediments by Skopas, depict to the east, the hunt for the Calydonian Boar and to the west, the battle between Achilles and Telephos at Kaikos.
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