Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 393 pages |
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... Pausanias --- Contractors and Architect --- Materials of the Building --- Form and Species --- Sculpture on the Pediments --- Statuaries --- Armour suspended on the Architrave --- Sculpture of the Me- topes and of the Frieze ...
... Pausanias --- Contractors and Architect --- Materials of the Building --- Form and Species --- Sculpture on the Pediments --- Statuaries --- Armour suspended on the Architrave --- Sculpture of the Me- topes and of the Frieze ...
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... Pausanias was only 230 feet long , 95 broad , and 68 high . This also was of the Doric order , but surrounded with a peristyle . Eliac . c . x . 2 . + Thus , as Diodorus Siculus observes , it partook of the nature of a dipteral temple ...
... Pausanias was only 230 feet long , 95 broad , and 68 high . This also was of the Doric order , but surrounded with a peristyle . Eliac . c . x . 2 . + Thus , as Diodorus Siculus observes , it partook of the nature of a dipteral temple ...
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... Pausanias , who is full of examples against his theory : it is rather odd too , that he had not seen the Marquis de Nointel's drawings from the pediments of the Parthenon . TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 21 temple of Vulcan ,
... Pausanias , who is full of examples against his theory : it is rather odd too , that he had not seen the Marquis de Nointel's drawings from the pediments of the Parthenon . TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 21 temple of Vulcan ,
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... Pausanias calls an iɛpòv demλev , ( Corinth . c . xxv . 1. ) or the Zenoposeidonion , a joint temple of Jupiter and Neptune , concerning which Athenæus ( lib . viii . p . 327. ) quotes the hu- mourous verses of Machon , which are thus ...
... Pausanias calls an iɛpòv demλev , ( Corinth . c . xxv . 1. ) or the Zenoposeidonion , a joint temple of Jupiter and Neptune , concerning which Athenæus ( lib . viii . p . 327. ) quotes the hu- mourous verses of Machon , which are thus ...
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... Pausanias , if his text be not corrupt , calls it Inycus ( in Achaic . c . iv . 5. ) . § Siciliæ primo Trinacria nomen fuit ; postea Sicania cognominata est . Hæc à principio patria Cyclopum fuit ; quibus extinctis , Cocalus regnum ...
... Pausanias , if his text be not corrupt , calls it Inycus ( in Achaic . c . iv . 5. ) . § Siciliæ primo Trinacria nomen fuit ; postea Sicania cognominata est . Hæc à principio patria Cyclopum fuit ; quibus extinctis , Cocalus regnum ...
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