Effective up to 25 miles with a top speed of Mach 2. They carried normal explosive warheads. In , the upgraded Hercules missile was introduced, which increased the range to 75 miles, increased speed to Mach 3. Nike sites were deployed as a ring around several large, important cities; for example, New York City had no less than 19 sites surrounding it, and Washington, D.
Most of them were simply abandoned; one of the sites on the Lorton Reformatory complex was converted into a jail. It's now open for tours. While their days in the US are over, the system still sees use elsewhere.
South Korea still has Hercules missiles in full service. The myrtle is her tree, the dove, the swan, and the sparrow are her birds. Sometimes it is said that Hera alone produced him and that he has no father. He is the only god who is physically ugly and lame. A ccounts as how he became lame vary.
Some say that Hera, upset by having an ugly child, flung him from Mount Olympus into the sea, breaking his legs. H e is the god of fire and the forge. He is the smith and armourer of the gods. He uses a volcano as his forge. He is the patron god of both smiths and weavers.
He is kind and peace loving. His wife is Aphrodite. Sometimes his wife is identified as Aglaia. Hephaestus, God of fire and the forge Hephaestus - draw Hestia is Zeus sister. She does not have a distinct personality. She plays no part in myths. She is the Goddess of the Hearth, the symbol of the house around which a newborn child is carried before it is received into the family.
Each city had a public hearth sacred to Hestia, where the fire was never allowed to go out. Athenian red-figure clay vase BC, Characterized as the most gentle, peace-loving, and charitable of the Olympian gods. Hestia, Goddess of hearth and home, remains guardian of the threshold of personal security and happiness. Hestia State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg,Russia The Temple of Zeus at Olympia, which housed the magnificent gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Phidias , one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
The temple is of Doric style and was built in the 5th Century BC, supposedly on the location of an even older temple. The Temple of Hepha i st o s in central ancient Athens-Greece , is the best-preserved ancient Greek temple in the world, but is far less well-known than its illustrious neighbour, the Parthenon.
The temple is also known as the Hepha i steum or Hepha i steion. It is sometimes called the Theseion , due to a belief current in Byzantine times that the bones of the legendary Greek hero Theseus were buried there; in fact the bones alleged to be those of Theseus were buried in the 5th century BC at another site nearer to the Acropolis Temple of Apollo at Delphi Fokidos, Greece. Central among the number of imposing ruins that are interspersed on the Southern slopes of Parnassos mountain is the temple of Apollo.
It is an imposing temple of the Doric order whose existence was woven through the turbulent history of the site, and endured numerous incarnations before it settled to the ruinous state we find it today, and which dates back to the 4th c. The site of the temple of Artemis Agrotera the Huntress is one of the most important historical and archeological sites that have survived in the center of Athens.
The building of the Temple of Olympian Zeus actually began in the 6th Century by Peisistratos but work was stopped either because of a lack of money or because Pisistratus's son, Hippias, was overthrown in BC. The temple was not finished until the Emperor Hadrian completed in AD, seven hundred years later. The recently restored Temple of Demeter in Naxos, Greece. Until recently, the 6th-century BC Temple of Demeter was in a state of complete ruin.
It had been partially dismantled in the 6th century AD to build a chapel on the site, and what was left was plundered repeatedly over the years. The Temple of Ares stood in the northern part of the Agora in Athens; originally built on another site around B. Although only scanty remains have survived, there is sufficient evidence to establish that this temple resembled the Temple of Hephaistos and was probably built by the same architect. At the outside of the temple is the altar. Samos - Temple of Hermes and Aphrodite was built in the beginning of the 7 th century.
Temple of Aphrodite at Rhodes , Greece is situated opposite the Gate of Freedom ; This temple was built in the beginning of the 3rd century BC, and is one of the few ancient remains to be found in the Old Town of Rhodes Thank you!
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