The Parthenon; an essay on the mode by which light was introduced into Greek and Roman temples (1883)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 86
ior of the temple. An obvious way ofmeeting the difficulty, to a modern architect at least, would have been to openwindows in the wall lower down. But this was not the way the Greeks set towork.^ For some reason or other they always objected to any interference withthe walls of the cellas. There… … 34.—Temple of Aetemis, Ortygia.(From Serra <Ii Falco.) ^ Sena di Falco, Anticlilfii di Sicilia, vol. vi.pi. ix. fig. 3. ^ Clinton, Fasti Hellenici, vol. i. p. 265. ^ There is no material evidence of windows foplaced in a Doric temple except in that at Agri- gentum. But that temple is not…
Parthenon (Athens, Greece) · Temples · Lighting
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