History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 503
to the problem why ramparts and sepulchres that have been in a poor condition since the fifth century b.c. should have survived to our day, when the temples and other public buildings which Pausanias saw at Argos have utterly disappeared, is to be found in the magnitude, and above all the… … position. If they must needs have walls of great strength, it surely was much simpler to go straight to the quarry and cut wTat blocks they required, rather than demolish old structures whose stones had all to be dressed anew. In after times, when the ancient civilization became extinct, the new…
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