Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 96
ing activity in AsiaMinor. By the wise administration of Pericles and by thegenius of Ictinus, Phidias, and other artists of surpassing GREEK ARCHITECTURE. ^3 skill, the Acropolis at Athens was crowned with a group ofbuildings and statues absolutely unrivalled. Chief amongthem was^he Parthenon, the… … FIG. -KLINS OF THE PARTHENON. an octastyle peripteral temple, with seventeen columns onthe side, and measured 220 by 100 feet on the top of thestylobate. It was the work of Ictinus and Callicrates, builtto enshrine the noble statue of the goddess by Phidias, astanding chryselephantine figure forty…
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