Architects and Designers

Ictinus

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Also Known As Iktinos

Classical Greek

Citation Formats

General Reference

Architecture and Design Atlas. "Ictinus." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://architecture.interactiveatlas.org/architects/ictinus.

APA Style

Architecture and Design Atlas. (n.d.). Ictinus. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://architecture.interactiveatlas.org/architects/ictinus

BibTeX

@misc{architectureanddesignatlas-ictinus,
  author = {Architecture and Design Atlas},
  title = {Ictinus},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://architecture.interactiveatlas.org/architects/ictinus},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

An architect active in Athens in the mid fifth century BC, named by ancient sources as co-architect of the Parthenon with Callicrates. Very little is known of his life beyond his credited buildings: he and a writer named Carpion produced a treatise on the Parthenon that has since been lost, and Pausanias credits him separately with the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. His reputation seems to have suffered after his patron Pericles fell from political favor, and the comic playwright Aristophanes appears to allude to him around 414 BC.

Facts

Nationality

Greek 1

Defining Contribution

Co-architect, with Callicrates, of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis; also credited by Pausanias with the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, which mixed Doric, Ionic and the earliest known Corinthian column in one building. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections