Spintharus of Corinth
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Not to be confused with the tragic poet Spintharus of Heracleia mentioned in Suda, with the character Spintharus mentioned in Aristophanes' The Birds, or with Spintharus of Tarentum [it], father of Aristoxenus.
Spintharus of Corinth (Ancient Greek: Σπίνθαρος, romanized: Spíntharos) was an ancient Greek architect. Pausanias reported in his Description of Greece that the Alcmaeonids hired him to build a temple at Delphi.[lower-alpha 1] This is the only record of Spintharus.[1] The temple to Apollo at Delphi had to be rebuilt after a fire in 548 BC and again after an earthquake in 373 BC.[2] Historians have offered competing claims as to which temple Spintharus constructed.