these (THez)

and pron. Plural of this. These i on, Theseum (the-se'on, -um), n. [NL., then brought home from Scyros; at the present time, specifically, a beautiful hexastyle peripteral Doric temple of Pentelic marble, dating The so-called These i on, at Athens, from the southwest. from the second half of the fifth century B. c., still standing in Athens at the foot of the Acropolis and Areopagus. Its interior arrangements and its sculptured decoration have suffered much, but it is notwithstanding the most perfect surviving example of a Greek temple, and exhibits all the refinements of Doric architecture at its culmination. This temple is now identified with practical certainty as that of Hephæstus (Vulcan); it was certainly not the temple of These us. See also cut under opisthodomos.