A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 199
same type used for the old He-rreum at Olynipia, the Hecatompedon at Athens,and for the temples at C!orinth, iEgina, andDelphi. It is the ancient megaron developed,with the principal addition of an enclosing col-onnade, or peristyle, and built of finer materialand with greater artistic skill ; the… … The ancient Cathedral or Metvi)p<ilitaii churchof Athens; a curious jiicce of niediaval Hyzanliuework ilatinu, as is generally thouglit, fmni the timeof the Latin conquest and the fnuudatinn of theFrench dukedom of Athens early in the thirteenth GREECE, AliCHITECTURE OF century. The building is…
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