Philippeion
Ruins · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 337 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.639, 21.629
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: circular monument at Ancient Olympia, Greece
History
The Philippeion in the Altis of Olympia was a tholos made of in limestone and marble. Originally, it contained chryselephantine statues of the family of Philip II, including himself, his son Alexander the Great, one of his wives Olympias, his father Amyntas III, and his mother Eurydice I. It was made by the Athenian sculptor Leochares as a memorial celebrating Philip's victory at the battle of Chaeronea. It was the only structure inside the Altis dedicated to human beings rather than gods.