Satyros
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Satyros or Satyrus, was an ancient Greek architect of the 4th century BCE. Along with Pythis, he designed the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. His name is the same as the original Greek word for Satyr.
Satyros (sometimes spelled Satyrus) was a Greek architect of the 4th century BC, noted for being co-designer of the great Mausoleum located at Halicarnassus on the Aegean Sea opposite Greece.
After Mausolus, Satrap of Caria in southwest Asia Minor died, 353 BC, his widow, Artemisia II of Caria, built a huge marble tomb, completed about 325 BC. in his memory at Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey). Its name, the Mausoleum, came to be the generic term for monumental tombs. It was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and was eventually destroyed by an earthquake.
The original chapter was initiated on May 5, 1962 and re-activated in January 2000, Satyros is a chapter of Alpha Rho Chi, a National co-ed Professional Fraternity for Architecture and the Allied Arts. Located at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona. The cadency mark of the Satyros Chapter is a trident.
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