How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 79
he Persian Sea. (Fig. 21.) While this empire proved more than the ruling forcesof Greece could control, it had a most marvellous edu-cational result, in that it offered the mysterious cultureand taste of this vast, intellectual, and artistic Garden ofEden to the Greeks, who were so soon to retire… … FIG. 21 TOMB OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT sciences of the conquered nation. So the Greek intel-lect, coming under the influence of the sensuous love ofcolor in the architecture of the East, capitulated, and inturn they themselves came to dominate Roman culture. We see Greece weakened under the persistent…
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