Qualla: Temple of the Delians https://qualla.com/temple-of-the-delians en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/u/temple-of-the-delians-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Temple of the Delians https://qualla.com/temple-of-the-delians Temple of the Delians: Introduction https://qualla.com/temple-of-the-delians/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0. No one was allowed to be born or to die on Delos. Pregnant women and the dying were ferried across to the smaller island of Rheneia, four stadia away, so that nothing as ordinary as birth or death could pollute the holy ground where Apollo himself was supposed to have been born. Every dog was banned. Every grave was eventually exhumed and moved off the island. The Temple of the Delians, the largest of three temples to Apollo at the heart of this purified sanctuary, was begun in 476 BC and never quite finished. Construction stopped, started, stopped again. The columns were never properly fluted. Today the columns lie on their sides like cylinders of cake, their unfinished surfaces preserving the exact moment in the Greek building process when the masons stopped working.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/u/temple-of-the-delians-wp/sw9u-temple-of-the-delians-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Temple of the Delians: Apollo's Birthplace https://qualla.com/temple-of-the-delians/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0. The myth, as Strabo retold it, is that Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis, wandered the Aegean searching for somewhere to give birth. Hera, the jealous wife of Zeus, had cursed her so that no land would receive her. Delos, then a floating rocky outcrop tossed by the waves, agreed...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/u/temple-of-the-delians-wp/sw9u-temple-of-the-delians-apollos-birthplace.mp3 0:06 2 full Temple of the Delians: The Delian League's Treasury https://qualla.com/temple-of-the-delians/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0. After the Persian wars, the Greek city-states formed a defensive alliance against Persia. The treasury was kept on Delos, which gave the league its name: the Delian League. Construction of the great temple began in 476 BC, funded by league contributions, as a Doric peripteral tem...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/u/temple-of-the-delians-wp/sw9u-temple-of-the-delians-the-delian-leagues-treasury.mp3 0:06 3 full Temple of the Delians: Unfinished Columns, A Window into Process https://qualla.com/temple-of-the-delians/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0. Because work stopped, the temple's columns preserve something most finished temples have lost: the Greek construction process itself. A column shaft was assembled from round stone drums, stacked one on top of another. While the drums were on the ground, masons would carve the flu...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/u/temple-of-the-delians-wp/sw9u-temple-of-the-delians-unfinished-columns-a-window-into-process.mp3 0:06 4 full Temple of the Delians: The Sack of 88 BC https://qualla.com/temple-of-the-delians/ Photo credit Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 3.0. Delos remained a religious sanctuary and a major commercial port through the Roman period. After Rome destroyed Corinth in 146 BC, much of that city's trade shifted to Delos, and the sanctuary's wealth grew. Then in 88 BC, during the First Mithridatic War, the Pontic king Mithrid...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/u/temple-of-the-delians-wp/sw9u-temple-of-the-delians-the-sack-of-88-bc.mp3 0:06 5 full Temple of the Delians: Foundations on the Sacred Ground https://qualla.com/temple-of-the-delians/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0. Today the Temple of the Delians is foundations and stylobate, with the unfinished column drums tumbled across the site like the wreckage of an interrupted thought. Visitors arrive by ferry from Mykonos, a 30-minute crossing, and walk through what amounts to a complete ancient san...

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