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 29
os, erectedby a colony of Greeks, whom Ion, the son of Xanthus,had led into Asia Minor. These persons, being ignorantof the correct proportions of a column intended to sup-port a roof, conceived the idea of making them corre-spond to the dimensions of a mans figure, the heightof which is about six… … Architrave, Frieze, and Corniceof Doric Pillar. * There is no foundation for this story, and it is most probable, as alreadyobserved, that the Greeks learned architecture from the Egyptians. THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS. i-j because first used in the cities of the Dorians, who theninhabited all Greece…
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