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Mnesikles

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Structures
  
Erechtheion, Propylaea, Stoa of Zeus

Similar
  
Callicrates, Ictinus, Pericles, Erichthonius of Athens

Mnesikles (Greek: Μνησικλῆς; Latin transliteration: Mnesicles) was an ancient Athenian architect active in the mid 5th century BCE, the age of Pericles.

Plutarch (Pericles, 13) identifies him as architect of the Propylaea, the Periclean gateway to the Athenian Acropolis.

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Mnesikles Wikipedia