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Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 157. porticoes contain each two fluted columns without bases, thecapitals of which remind us of the Corinthian style. A semi-circular building is affixed to the chief edifice, the whole im-pression of which is extremely graceful (Fig. 158). THE STOA. 113 27. We have repeatedly mentioned the stoa or colonnade inconnection with other buildings ; we now have to consider it as aseparate artistic erection. Something of the land we have alreadyseen in the xysti, where wide colonnades were terminated on oneside by a wall, on the other by a row of columns. In the samemanner the stoa, as an independent building, occurs both as anornament of streets and squares, and as a convenient locality for
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walks and public meetings. Its simplest form is that of a colon-nade bounded by a wall. This back wall offers a splendid surfacefor decorations, and is frequently adorned with pictures. A stoain the market-place of Athens contained illustrations of thebattle of GEnoe, of the fight of the Athenians against the i ii4 DOUBLE STOAS AT P^STUM AND THORIKOS. Amazons, of the destruction of Troy, and of the battle of Marathon ;hence the name aroa ttolklK^. The progress from this simple form to a further extension ison a principle somewhat analogous to what we have observed inthe temple; that is, a row of columns was added on the otherside of the wall. The result was a double colonnade, croa hnr\rj,as a specimen of which, Pausanias mentions €he Korkyraic stoanear the market-place of Elis. As important we notice Pau-saniass remark that this stoa contained in the middle not columns, but a wall; which shows that mostof the double colonnades containedcolumns in the centre as props of theroof. Ind

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