The architecture of Greece & Rome; a sketch of its historic development (1902)
Anderson, William J. (William James), 1864-1900, Spiers, Richard Phene, 1838-1916 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 70
e chief characteristic of the hexastyle temples is the great length of the cella com- pared with the width, the wide peristyles, the absence of the posticum in some of them, and in temple D the substitution of attached round columns instead of antse to the pronaos. A remarkable Ionic capital is… … 20. — THE TEMPLE OF JUNO LACINIA AT AGRIGENTUM. able examples of the way in which the Greeks availed themselves of the peculiarities of the site to give grandeur and emphasis to their temples. The ancient city was about ten miles in circum- ference, with two nearly parallel ranges of calcareous…
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