Temple To Zeus, Cyrene

Temple to Zeus in Cyrene, Libya.

Dating back to the 5th century BCE, but restored by the Romans around year 0. It was destroyed during a Jewish rebellion in 115, and restored a second time in 120. In the great earthquake of 365, it was crushed not rebuilt before British and Italian archaeologists put it back together in modern times.
This temple is larger than the Parthenon in Athens, a reflection of the wealth and importance of Cyrene in the ancient Greek world.

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[noleyplatz]

@katsaprokos1 As everything in the Passion of the Christ was symbolic as well as actual, it seems Simon from Cyrene who assisted Jesus and was thus converted , was chosen to represent all the old fake idols and 'gods' just as the world was rejecting them through Jesus. At that time in Israel, the devout were being assaulted by Greek Jews who despised the plain old religion in favour of the intellectualism of Greek philosophers.

[katsaprokos1]

Cyrene (Greek: Κυρήνη, Kyrēnē) was an ancient Greek colony in present-day Shahhat, Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. The city was named after a spring, Kyre, which the Greeks consecrated to Apollo. It was also the seat of the Cyrenaics, a famous school of philosophy in the 3rd century BC, founded by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. It has been nicknamed then as "Athens of Africa ''(FROM WIKIPEDIA)

[katsaprokos1]

greeks everywhere in the world...

[Libya2332]

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