Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 253
felldown in 1401 : the ruins of one of the latter were puttogether by Signor Politi, and found to measure 26 feetin height. Vast quantities of the materials of the templewere employed in the construction of the mole whichprotects the present port of Girgenti.* To the north of the site of this huge… … 1 e...ple of Castor anj Poll..x vated. Separated from it by a deep hollow was that ofViilca?i, of which two columns still remain. Betweenthe temples of Zeus Olympius and Concord a singlepillar stands erect, a memorial of the Temple of Hercules(209 feet 8 inches long, and ^2> feet broad, and sur-…
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