Libon was a 5th-century BC

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. Born in

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, he built the

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Temple of Zeus at Olympia in about 460 BC.

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translated John Galen Howard reprint 2005- Page 229 "While at Olympia, I kept an eye / On the relations of the architect, Libon, who built the temple, with his aids, Paeonius and Alcamenes, the sculptors; And much admired the way the architect / Succeeded in attaining unity," Libon, through his work on the Temple, is said to have inspired the technique and design of the

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on the

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Acropolis – though this was obviously later and more perfected.

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