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The Temple of Apollo Epicurius was built between the years 430-410 B.C. by Iktinos, the architect of Parthenon. The temple is situated at a distance of 7 kilometers north of the city of Phigaleia and 14 kilometers from Andritsena in a rocky environment and at a height of 1130 meters at Bassae. The temple was dedicated by the inhabitants of Phigaleia to Apollo for their saving from the vast and the deadly epidemics which cursed the area. The temple, which was built of local limestone, is the best preserved ancient temple second to that of Hephaestus in Theseio.


The temple’s dimensions are 38.24 m. x 14.48 m. and it is surrounded by a peristyle. The Temple’s frieze consists of 32 sculpted in bas-relief marble slates which are now found in the British Museum. The Temple of Apollo Epicurius is considered by UNESCO World Heritage Site and there is in progress a major conservation project by the Greek Government

Few years afterwards Niki of Paionioy, Greek artists filotechnisan roughly
410 B.C. of zoforo temple of Epikoyreioy Apollo, in ancient Basses.
Embossed zoforos was placed bend-will bend in siko the temple and was supported on the internal colonnade and in the walls. In the 23 saved plates that are exposed in the British Museum are presented battles Kentayron with Lapithes and Amazons with Greeks. The forms are limited by the size of plates and do not continue in their next men, as in the Parthenon. The composition is more inferior artistically from similar subject of ologlyfa Parthenon but par' all them has her own force and movement and transmits in the observer the intensity of battles.


The temple of Epikoyreioy Apollo

It is the first almost completely maintained temple in which are represented for first time and the three architectural rythms of antiquity: ionikos, Dorian, Corinthian.
The place that is built the temple, in altitude 1.131 m., has the ancient name “Bassai”, that means small valley in the rocks.
He is Dorian peripteros, built from local limestone. It is constituted from pronao, siko and opisthodomo and has orientation from north to south. In siko it existed kionas with Corinthian kionokrano, that is the ancienter known example.


Temple it adorned made of marble, embossed zoforos with representation amazonomachias and kentayromachias. The plates zoforoy have yfarpagei and are found today in the British Museum.
The temple, work of architect of Parthenon of Kite, is dated round the 420 B.C. and was built on older temple, from the residents of Figaleias to price of Epikoyrioy Apollo in clue of gratitude on their salvation by plague.
The surname Epikoyrios was given in Apollo round 650 B.C., the season of wars with their Spartiates.


In 1902, in Athens Archaeological Company began in the region systematic archaeological research under general management of Mr Koyroynioti and with the subscription of Mr Roman and P. Kabbadia. Were continued in the 1959, 1970 and at period 1975-79, under the address of N. Gialoyri.
Have become small restoration interventions from the state-employed civil engineer N. Mpalano and from professor X. Mpoyra. Recently it was worked out by the Committee Epikoyrioy Apollo complete study of restoration of temple.
Today becomes work of maintainance of temple from the scientists of Committee Epikoyrioy Apollo, which oversee the work and have seat Athens.