Ictinus
Mid-5th-century BC Athenian architect
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The architect who shaped the Parthenon's proportions also drew mockery in an Athenian comedy, his name twisted into a joke about a thieving bird when his patron fell from power.
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Ictinus worked in the mid 5th century BC, co-designing the Parthenon with Callicrates and co-writing a now-lost book on the project with Carpion. He designed the Temple of Apollo at Bassae, mixing Doric exterior with Ionic interior and placing the earliest known Corinthian column at the center rear of the cella. Pericles commissioned him to design the Telesterion at Eleusis, a massive hall for the Eleusinian Mysteries, but the job was cut short when Pericles lost power. His ties to the fallen ruler likely damaged him: around 414 BC Aristophanes singled him out in The Birds, turning his name in…
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