The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 176
beforeit could reach to the perfected beauty of the Par-thenon was the Temple of Theseus (Plate XVI) atAthens, built under Cimon, son of Miltiades, afterhis return from Scyros with the ashes of the heroand flushed with victory over the Dolopian pirates. Its date must therefore have been between… … Fig. 52.—Plan of the Temple of Theseus. colonnade (Fig. 52)—the columns being 5.7 diame-ters in height, and here for the first time (so far aswe know) the metopes, or spaces between the tri-glyphs, were carved with bas-reliefs. Yet so great c w Cor- t Ovolo.nice I Coiona. Pediment . . Corona . .…
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