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 57
and solem-nity as the Venetians displayed on the arrival of thesacred bones of St. Mark. A splendid mausoleum —which was at once a temple and a tomb—was raised for * See Grote, History of Greece, vol. i., pp. 281, et sqq. 54 HOW A HERO WAS HONOURED. its reception, and the departed hero was… … The Temple of Theseus, or the Theseium. The Temple of Theseus was begun, under the auspicesof Cimon, in the year B.C. 476. It was wholly con- DESCRIPTION OF THE TEMPLE. 55 structed of white Pentelic marble, and elevated uponsteps on a small isolated hill outside the walls of Athens,to the…
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