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 92
on ; and the gleaming marble pillars of themagnificent Parthenon. The slopes of the hill were em-bellished and enriched with two sacred enclosures ofIsis, and two of Serapis ; altars of the Sun ; and a sanc-tuary of Necessity and Force, which no one was allowedto enter ; a temple of the Mother of… … Ruins of a Doric Temple at Corinth. What is it now % A small, squalid, unhealthy town, with-out life or activity, without trade or commerce. And of the ancient city what remains % One mi^ht almost answer, Seven Doric coliuniis, which 90 THE SCANTY MEMORMLS Leake supposes to have belonged to the…
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