A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 457
r makes some slight mention of the temples766 TEMPLE of the gods, he gives no Jescription of them ashe does of the palaces of his heroes, whom wesee sacrificing upon the altars in their forecourts.Indeed, it is highly improbable that such struc-tures as we designate by the word temple ex- TEMPLE… … isted at all at the time of Homer. It was nottill anthropomorphic ideas of divinity, ne(x?ssi-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 Imildiiig in which…
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