Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 126
the third and fourth centuries there was amarked decline in purity and refinement of detail, many ofthe later works of the period display a remarkable freedomand originality in conception. But these works are reallynot Roman, they are foreign, that is, provincial products ;and the transfer of the… … 1 TEMPLES. The Romans built both rectangular and circu-lar temples, and there was much variety in their treatment.In the rectangular temples a high ^odiiim, or basement, wassubstituted for the Greek stepped stylobate, and the pro-style plan was morecommon than the pe-ripteral. The cellawas…
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