Selinus is really one of the most beautiful archaeological resorts, one of the richest of art and history.
Walking among its monuments is like skimming through history and art pages, and among these monuments we find the temple F, probably dedicated to Athena, Jove's favourite daughter, or to Dyonisus, god of joy, drama, fertility, wine.The building is a very example of doric style, situated in a simple landscape always full of an immense beneficial and restful peace.

Primary building in a comprehensive review of doric architecture, it covers a large rectangular surface: it is 65,76 m. long, 37,111 m. wide, with an area of 1.802, 4816 square meters.

Its columns without base, six of which were at the frontons and fourteen at the long sides, rise up on there well-proportioned steps.
In ancient times they were used as seats by people participating in sacrifical rites.
The diameter of these columns is 1,82 in the base; they're 9, 11 m. high and are decorated with 20 flutes.

The interior of the temple was divided into the cella (naos) 40,66 x 7,11 m. large, preceded by a simple "in antis" hall with four columns (pronaos), provided with an "adyton", the chapel destined to lodge the statue for the cult of the god.
The building was the only one with a pseudo-periptery shape, that's to say not surrounded by free columns, but by columns which marked out the development of an uninterrupted wall, 4,70 m. high and 0,37 m. thick. Each panel had an architrave and vertical pillars, to give the impression of a succession of doors.

Architect's care is devoted to the essentiality of the structures, strengthened presumedly by the need of providing a hiding for particular rituals.
Even if the size of this ruin is bug, we can notice that it remains just a few, comparing with the group of the original building and so we can infer that a great part of the materials it was constitued of was removed in an imprecise period. From this temple come the metope s today in the archeological museum in Palermo, datable to 530-525 B.C., showing two episodes of gigantomachy.