Libon (architect)

{{Short description|Ancient Greek architect}}

{{Other uses|Libon (disambiguation){{!}}Libon}}

Libon was a 5th-century BC architect of Ancient Greece. Born in Elis, he built the Doric Temple of Zeus at Olympia in about 460 BC.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}Pausanias, v. 10.3.Pheidias translated John Galen Howard reprint 2005- Page 229 "While at Olympia, I kept an eye / On the relations of the architect, Libon, who built the temple, with his aids, Paeonius and Alcamenes, the sculptors; And much admired the way the architect / Succeeded in attaining unity," Libon, through his work on the Temple, is said to have inspired the technique and design of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis – though this was obviously later and more perfected.{{citation needed|date=January 2012}}