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 76
d to their use; and inasmuch as this fabric wasapproached by a portico, and surrounded by a conse-crated enclosure, so the whole land of Attica itself was asacred Temenos, whose boundaries were seas and moun-tains, and whose propylaea (or portal) was the templededicated to Athena on the promontory… … Temple of Athene, Cajic buinuiu. into the sea, is singularly magnificent, and the view itcommands over the islands of ^-Egina and the otherheadlands is perhaps unrivalled. To the south and eastlies the group of islands called the Cyclades, sprinklingthe waters of the ^^gean Sea ; more to the north…
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