January 9th: Aegina (pronounced egg-ehn-uh)

This pictures of this journal entry are predominately focused on the culture and people of Aegina as opposed to Aegea architecture for a reason.  The culture is twenty times more interesting!  But, true to topic, I will talk about the architecture of the Temple of Athena Aphaia which is seen in three of the pictures.  This temple was dedicated to the Greek goddess Aphaia.  The temple is made up of many tall Doric columns which have been renewed since a fire that destroyed the original temple in 510 BC.  The temple was a hexastyle peripteral Doric order structure with only three of the outer columns in a monolithic style.  The last temple contains two pedimental sculptures which easily illustrate the change from Archaic to Early Classical technique.  This is what makes this site so historic!