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 (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 657
353I feet in length. (17) Temple of Zeus at Olympia. Built c. 470 by thepeople of BUs from the spoils of Pisa, which they had destroyeda century before (c. 572, when they finally won from the Pisatansthe supremacy in the games). It was a Doric temple (6 x 13),210 feet long, with a sanctuary, aisled… … s o « g o O O < GREEK TEMPLES the sculptures of pediments and the statue of Zeus, &c., seeChapter VI, Section A. (i8) Temple of Athene on Sunion, Cape Sunion (I^at.Sunium), now Cape Colonna, is the steep promontory, about 200feet high, in which Attica terminates. The earliest temple on…
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