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 62
order, and their capitalsare finely sculptured with graceful foliage. The architrave is divided horizontally into three parts ;and the frieze wrought with well-executed figures in repre-sentation of the old myth of Dionysus and the Tyrrhenianpirates, when the god changed the mast and oars of… … The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates. leaped into the sea, and were transformed into dolphins.*There is no entrance to the building, nor any apertureto afford light to the interior. It is conjectured that the Choragic Monument waserected about 335 years before the Christian era, or in * Ovid,…
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