Bassae was a city on the western-central Peloponnesian Peninsula and the site of a small but magnificent temple. The historian Pausanias reported that the temple was designed by Iktinos who was also one of the architects of the Parthenon in Athens. The marble reliefs you see here depict scenes from the wars with the Centaurs and the Amazons. Although badly damaged in many places, these reliefs are beautiful and compelling.