![]() ![]() Therefore, it is possible that they were, too, the consequence of human intervention. The results indicated that simultaneous (and exclusive) collapse of the three epistyle blocks is not likely to have occurred due to seismic excitations. Following these findings, numerical analyses were conducted, in order to investigate whether the earlier north epistyles collapse was a consequence of an earthquake. The last missing north epistyle block probably collapsed around the 16th century A.D. which denoted that two out of the six blocks missing from the north epistyle (architrave) were thrown down in 1812 by the north-Europeans excavators, and that the other three missing beams were collapsed earlier, probably in the same period which is estimated around the 13th or the 14th century A.D. Recently, the dismantling, for restoration purposes, of the north part of the monument led to new data. Hence, its structural adventures are mostly unknown. The temple was abandoned and forgotten for many centuries, until 1765 when found in ruinous state. The temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai (Peloponnese, Greece) is considered one of the most significant buildings of the classical antiquity. ![]()
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