Gigantomachy-Great Altar of Pergamon

The open-air altar appears to be mentioned in the Book of Revelation, Revelation 2:12-13: "In Pergamos where Satan's Throne is". The Great Altar of Pergamon has figured in lists of the Wonders of the World.


The Great Altar of Pergamon, , was originally built in the 2nd century BCE in the Ancient Greek city of Pergamon (modern day Bergama in Turkey) in north-western Anatolia, 25.74 kilometers from the Aegean Sea.The only lengthy reference to it in Antiquity is in the Liber Memorialis of Ampelius , where it is described as "a large marble altar, forty feet high with a great many sculptures, among which a Battle of the Giants."

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Magnificent presentation of the sculptures subsisting of the Great Altar of Pergamon in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Based upon the excellent photos of André Durand who presents them with the sensibility and deep understandnis of an accomplished artist. The 5th Beethoven's symphony as accompaniement cannot be more appropriate to the fatal contest and the transformation of the early dark chaos into greek kosmos