A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 399
ekarchitecture, and there are oidy a very fewmonuments of pre-Roman time in which it isknown to have existed. Of these the mostimportant is the circidar building at Eijidaunis680 CORMONT (see Tholos). The little l)uil(ling in Athensknown as the Choragic Mnuuiuent of Lysicratesis another instance.… … CoRiNTHiAK Capital of Simplest Type. of the empire retaining great charm of elabora-tion, as in Palmyra and Baalbek, in the palaceat Spalato, the Maison Carree at Nimes, and,especially, at Athens in the temple of OlympianZeus, which was finished, and probably entirelybuilt, under Hadrian. —R. S.…
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