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 76
g 22—Athens, St. Theodore. St. Nicomedes is another Byzantinechurch similar in character and plan to St,Theodore and the Catholicon, 31 ATITETs^S DiiVi.ON (iATi;, tlic l>e.<t ])rcsoi-veil of btautiinl tciiijile. From its urcliitcctural tlie. aiifiiiitiratos of the city, iiiul the chief… … er^i, Er>ctheum. Through it passed the sacred way toEleusis. The city walls here are double,the two lines being al)0ut in ft. a})art.The outer wall is about 14 ft. thick, theinner, which is identified as the wall ofThenustocles. only 8 ft. 15oth walls arefaced on both sides with masonry, andhave…
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