Ancient Greece : a sketch of its art, literature and 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 · Toronto : McAinsh · leaf 434
of the Parthenon (much 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,… … 85. Portions of Parthenon Frieze 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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