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title="Philo (disambiguation)">Philo (disambiguation)</a></div> <p><b>Philon</b> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%A6%CE%AF%CE%BB%CF%89%CE%BD" class="extiw" title="wikt:Φίλων">Φίλων</a></span>), <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athenian</a> <a href="/wiki/Architect" title="Architect">architect</a> of the 4th century BC, is known as the planner of two important works: the <a href="/wiki/Portico" title="Portico">portico</a> of twelve Doric columns to the great <a href="/wiki/Telesterion" title="Telesterion">Hall of the Mysteries</a> at <a href="/wiki/Eleusis" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleusis">Eleusis</a> (work commissioned by <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_of_Phalerum" title="Demetrius of Phalerum">Demetrius Phalereus</a> about 318 BC) and, under the administration of <a href="/wiki/Lycurgus_of_Athens" title="Lycurgus of Athens">Lycurgus</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Arsenal" title="Arsenal">arsenal</a> at Athens.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the last we have exact knowledge from an inscription. E. A. Gardner observes that it "is perhaps known to us more in detail than any other lost monument of antiquity."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was to hold the rigging of the <a href="/wiki/Galley" title="Galley">galleys</a>; and was so contrived that all its contents were visible from a central hall, and so liable to the inspection of the <a href="/wiki/Athenian_democracy" title="Athenian democracy">Athenian democracy</a>. He is known to have written books on the Athenian arsenal and on the proportions of temple buildings,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911439_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911439-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but these are now lost. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a> (vii, introduction) quotes Philon on the <a href="/wiki/Proportion_(architecture)" title="Proportion (architecture)">proportions</a> of temples, and on the naval arsenal which was at the port of <a href="/wiki/Piraeus" title="Piraeus">Piraeus</a>. </p><p>Philon's arsenal was destroyed by the forces of <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucius Cornelius Sulla">Lucius Cornelius Sulla</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Athens_and_Piraeus_(87%E2%80%9386_BC)" title="Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC)">Roman conquest of Athens in 86 BC</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philon&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSmith,_Sir_William1859" class="citation book cs1">Smith, Sir William, ed. (1859). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UcwPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA314">"Philon, A very eminent architect at Athens"</a>. <i>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology</i>. Vol. III. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 314.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Philon%2C+A+very+eminent+architect+at+Athens&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Greek+and+Roman+Biography+and+Mythology&rft.place=Boston&rft.pages=314&rft.pub=Little%2C+Brown%2C+and+Company&rft.date=1859&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DUcwPAAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DPA314&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APhilon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChisholm1911">Chisholm 1911</a>, p. 439 cites <a href="#CITEREFGardner">Gardner</a>, p. 557</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911439-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911439_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChisholm1911">Chisholm 1911</a>, p. 439.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philon&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGardner" class="citation book cs1">Gardner, E. 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(1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Philon" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Philon">Philon</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 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