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 72
se of celebrating the musicalcontests at the Panathenaea, was the first of the kind. It was burned whenAthens was captured by Sulla, in B.C. 85, and afterwards restored by Ariobar-zanes II., King of Cappadocia. THE OLYMPIEIUM. 69 erected by Pericles, and stands on a vast elevated plat-form—the… … Remains of the Olympieiuin. sculptured pediment. It was begun in the time ofPeisistratus, and remained unfinished for nearly sevenhundred years, when the power of Rome, under theEmperor Hadrian, was exerted to secure the completionof the gorgeous pile. Utter and irretrievable ruin, how-ever, has…
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