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The temple was started around 427 BC and also finished throughout the unrest of the Peloponnesian battle. Created from white marble, it was integrated in stages as war time funding allowed. What to See at the Temple of Athena NikeThe Holy Place of Athena Nike is a tetrastyle (four columns) Ionic holy place with colonnaded verandas in the front and also back. It has moderate dimensions: 27 feet long, 18 1/2 feet broad and 23 feet tall. The ratio of elevation to diameter of the columns is 7:1, the slender percentages developing an elegance and refinement not encountered in the normal 9:1 or 10:1 of Ionic buildings. A cult statuary of Athena Nike stood inside the small 5m x 5m naos. An account by the old writer Pausanias defines the statue as made from wood, holding a helmet in her left hand, and a pomegranate (icon of fertility) in her right. Unlike the well-known “Winged Success of Samothrace” in the Louvre Gallery, this Nike sculpture was wingless. History of the Holy place of DemeterThe Holy Place of Demeter was constructed in the 6th century BC. It is among the few well-known holy places with a square flooring plan. The temple has sometimes been called the Theseum as a result of a belief that it was a hero shrine committed to Theseus. A Doric peripherals holy place with some Ionic elements, the holy place consists of a rectangle-shaped unit bordered by an outer colonnade on all four sides. The ceiling is wooden, the roof floor tiles are constructed from terracotta, and also there is a limestone step at the bottom of the platform.