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 43
form, which was ascended at its western front by a flightof three steps. It had the same number on the east, andseventeen on either side. And at each end, above the eightmassive columns, rose a lofty pediment, eighty feet inJieight, and occupied by nearly twenty figures. Themetopes, or intervening… … Bas-Rclief of the Battle between the Centaurs and the Lapithte. • between Athena and Poseidon for the supremacy of Athens,was depicted on one of the pediments ; and on the othermight be seen the birth of Athena, or the presentationof that goddess to the assembled divinities of Olympus.All these…
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