A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 222
mple of Athena, as it is identified les GIKGENTI with ])i-<)l):il)ility, an important arcliaicDoric temple wiiosc remains are now in-corporated in tlie cliiirch of Stn. Maria ile(ireci, the oldest church in (iirjrcnti.Ihe temjjle was peripteral, hexastyle. withthirteen columns on the flanks, on… … the temple of Zeus, a fireek J)oric monu-ment of good style. The four columnsstandiiifr, which form the N. W. angle.witJi their entablature and a portion ofthe pediment, were re-erected in 1860.The stone is coated with fine stucco, uponwhich color was applied. In plan thetemple was peripteral,…
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