Ancient Greece : a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1915)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · London : G. G. Harrap · leaf 302
exion with some of the chief temples. The original shrine, generally of wood or sunburnt brick,was an oblong, or rarely a round, building, like the ancientGreek house, with a porch. Sometimes this porch had sidewalls and perhaps a couple of wooden pillars in front, sothat the whole building… … THE AGE OF PEISISTRATUS the building and the side walls of the porch were omitted, sothat an open portico was formed.^ Then a porch or porticowas placed at both ends of the building. 2 Next, a row ofcolumns was extended all round the building, which was saidto be peripteros—i.e. winged, or…
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