User:Iktinos

Iktinos was a member of the Builder and Retro tracks until December 2013.

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The western entrance of Arx Nivea.

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|\    /ENDING his way up the path from the mason's yard,|
|o\/\/o| arms laden with a stack of parchment scrolls,  |
:=:====: you see a young man who is dressed in the      |
|(| clothes of a long-gone civilisation.                |
|)|                                                     |
:=:====:                                                |
|o|__|IS hair is jet black and, like his clothes and    |
|o|  |o| skin, it is covered in a fine coating stone    |
:=:====: dust.  The sound of the mason's hammers at     |
|(| work upon a great stone column affects his pace as  |
|)| he labours up the steps to the work site atop the   |
|(| Akropolis.                                          |
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:=:====:                                                |
|\    /ITH furrowed brow and blue eyes locked unseeing  |
|o\/\/o| upon the way ahead, he frets about the great   |
:=:====: effort underway, and whether or not it will    |
|(| ever be completed.                                  |
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|()/\LMOST nothing is known about the ancient Greek     |
|o/--\o| architect Iktinos.  He was active from 450 -   |
:=:====: 430 B.C. and designed the Hall of Mysteries    |
|(| at Eleusis, the Temple of Apollo at Bassae          |
|)| and, with Kallikrates,   ___________________________|
|(| the Parthenon at Athens. |        __-"""-__        ||
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|=:====:                     | []_[]_[]_[]_[]_[]_[]_[] ||
|o|\ |ONE of his works are   | || || || || || || || || ||
|o| \|o| intact, bar the     | || || || || || || || || ||
|=:====: Temple of Hephaestus| || || || || || || || || ||
|(| in Athens, which survived|=========================||
|)| the years due to its use |_________________________||
|(| as a Christian church.                              |
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