Choragic Monument of Lysicrates

Athens Municipality, Greece

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Near the Acropolis in Athens, the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates stands as a commemorative structure erected around 335/334 BCE by the wealthy patron Lysicrates to celebrate his victory as choregos—the liturgist who funded a dithyramb performance—in the City Dionysia contest at the Theater of Dionysus. Built from Hymettian and Pentelic marble with tuff, the monument is architecturally significant as the first known use of the Corinthian order on a building's exterior, departing from the earlier Ionic tradition. Its innovative design has been widely reproduced in subsequent monuments and architectural elements throughout the modern world.