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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A temple or sanctuary of the Athenian hero-king Theseus, especially a temple built in Athens, about 460
b. c. , to receive the bones of Theseus, then brought home from Scyros; at the present time, specifically, a beautiful hexastyle peripteral Doric temple of Pentelic marble, dating from the second half of the fifth centuryb. c. , still standing in Athens at the foot of the Acropolis and Areopagus.
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