A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 310
les, Akragas;C and E, Selinus). In the whole group threetemples alone have more than 6 columns on theends, the Basilica at P«stum (9-18), templeG at Selinus (8-17), and the temple of theOlympian Zeus at Akragas (7-14). Thesetemples also are the most colossal known in theDoric order, and have other… … .:hs- SICILY tliis was iiiaile more pioniiiuiit liy tlie uiiii|iieexpedient of closing up tlic iiiteicolumniatioiis)>y a liigh soieeii of stone slabs, tlius ereatinga closed deaniliulatory. Hut tiie rliniax wasreaciieil in the temple of Zeus at Aknigas.Here the ])eristyle is ehanged into a…
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