A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 457
akes some slight mention of the temples766 TEMPLE of the gods, he gives no tlescription of them aahe iloe-s of tlie palaces of liis heroes, whom wesee sjicriticiug upim tlie altars in tlicir forecourts.Imlecil, it is highly improbable that such struc-tiues as we designate by the wonl temple ex-… … isted at all at the time of Homer. It was nottill anthropomorphic ideas of divinity, necessi-tating the use of images, came into vogue, thatsome form of artificial shelter for such images,i.e., a temple, became necessary. Centurieselapsed after the Dorian invasion before any767 building in which a…
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