Definitions for Ictinus

Ictinus Ic·ti·nus

Spelling: [ik-tahy-nuh s]
IPA: /ɪkˈtaɪ nəs/

Ictinus is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in Ictinus (ciinstu).

Definitions for Ictinus

noun

  1. flourished mid-5th century b.c, Greek architect, a designer of the Parthenon.

Examples for Ictinus

The next two nests discovered were both those of the Kite (Milvus Ictinus), each on a lofty pine.

Ictinus was celebrated for the magnificent temples which he erected to the heathen gods.

In one of them, for instance, Ictinus confides to the reporter that he was born in the shadow of the Parthenon.

According to Pausanias, they were the work of Ictinus, a contemporary of Phidias.

They were executed in the time of Pericles, the temple having been built by Ictinus, the architect of the Parthenon.

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