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Identifier: handbookofarchae00west (find matches)
Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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be identified at the present day. To the same agebelong the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassse, its frieze, probablythe work of the scholars of Phidias, is now in the British Museum;the temple of Minerva at Sunium, and the greater temple atRhamnus. Sicily and Magna Grecia, colonies of Greece, afford a number ofexamples of Grecian temples. In Sicily, the earliest example isthat of Selinus. The style of its sculpture indicates a very earlydate, about the middle of the seventh century, b.c At Agrigentumthere are three Doric temples, and one remarkable for its giganticdimensions. At Segeste is a temple in an excellent state of preserva-tion. Ptestum, in Magna Grecia, presents a magnificent group of 26 HANDB0OK OF ABOBJSOLOGY. temples. Of these the earliest is the temple of Neptune, supposedto be coeval with the earliest period of Grecian emigration to thesouth of Italy. It is hexastyle and hypgethral. Solidity combinedwith simplicity and grace distinguishes it from the other buildings.
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TEMPLES. 27 The other temples, the basilica, and the temple of Ceres, betray theinfluence of a later or Roman style. At Metapontum are the ruinsof a Doric temple, of which fifteen columns with the architave arestill standing. The earliest Ionic temple of which remains are vet visible issupposed to be that dedicated to Juno at Samos. At Teos, a townin Ionia, there is a very beautiful Ionic temple dedicated to Bacchus.It is now in ruins. The celebrated temple of Diana at Ephesus issaid to have been Ionic. Even its site is now unknown. Of Ionictemples in Greece, the oldest example probably was the temple onthe Ilissus, now destro)red, dating from about 488 B.C. Of allexamples of this order, the most perfect and the most exquisite isthe Erectheum at Athens. It was a double temple, of which theeastern division was consecrated to Minerva Polias, and the western,including the northern and southern porticoes, was sacred to Pan-drosus, the deified daughter of Cecrops. The eastern portico, oren

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