{"id":149,"date":"2018-03-20T11:10:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-03-20T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T15:10:49","slug":"temples-at-agrigento-and-pirandello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/sicily\/temples-at-agrigento-and-pirandello\/","title":{"rendered":"Temples at Agrigento and Pirandello"},"content":{"rendered":"

3\/15\/18: Today, we visited our third consecutive ancient site, the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento. We saw four temples on a ridge overlooking the sea, dedicated to Juno, Concord, Heracles, and Olympian Zeus, respectively. The Temple of Concord (pictured below) is the best preserved, as it was turned into a church in the Middle Ages, and was thus the inspiration for the UNESCO logo. It is a Doric peripteral, hexastyle temple. Like the temples at Selinunte, these structures at Agrigento show the wealth of this ancient city.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After our visit to the ancient site, we went to the home and tomb of the 19th\/20th century Italian writer, Luigi Pirandello. His house, which he had lived in since his birth, has since been turned into a museum and is filled with his letters and paintings by his sister. His tomb (below) is located nearby further down a cliff. The story of his burial is quite interesting and very complex, as Pirandello had specific wishes but none were followed. This monument was definitely not what he had intended.<\/p>\n

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3\/15\/18: Today, we visited our third consecutive ancient site, the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento. We saw four temples on a ridge overlooking the sea, dedicated to Juno, Concord, Heracles, and Olympian Zeus, respectively. The Temple of Concord (pictured below) is the best preserved, as it was turned into a church in the Middle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicily","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}