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 426
uch of which is in the BritishMuseum) was a continuous frieze, as in an Ionic temple, andran above the inner columns of the porticoes, all roundthe outside of the walls of the sanctuary. It could thus beseen by those who walked, or a procession which marched,round the Parthenon, and the figures… … 85. IORTIONS OF IARrillCXON FklKZK 304 THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE so as to avoid too deep shadows. The continuous (Ionic) friezeis, of course, well adapted for the representation of processions.The subject of the Parthenon frieze is the Panathenaic pro-cession, the great solemnity that took place every…
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