Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Ficoroni Cista from Praeneste (Martha). Plate III Praeneste, Temple of Fortune as Restoredby Late Renaissance Architect (Durm) ROMAN CITIES 21 there was no such spectacular and sudd^en riseinside the inclosure, no such unity of architectu-ral composition, no such pj^amidal upbuilding,no such simultaneous view of the whole scene,even from a distance. The Latin shrine musthave far outshone those of Greece in this generaleffect if inferior in every other respect. In its final form, as given to it by Sulla,shortly after 82 , it rose in pyramidal shapeup the
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Ficoroni Cista from Praeneste (Martha). Plate III Praeneste, Temple of Fortune as Restoredby Late Renaissance Architect (Durm) ROMAN CITIES 21 there was no such spectacular and sudd^en riseinside the inclosure, no such unity of architectu-ral composition, no such pj^amidal upbuilding,no such simultaneous view of the whole scene,even from a distance. The Latin shrine musthave far outshone those of Greece in this generaleffect if inferior in every other respect. In its final form, as given to it by Sulla,shortly after 82 , it rose in pyramidal shapeup the mountain side to a height of nearly fourhundred and fifty feet or one hundred and fiftymeters. At its base it was over one thousandthree hundred feet wide (four hundred andtwenty-five meters) ; at its summit about fourhundred feet wide (one hundred and twenty-fivemeters). The crowning hemicycle of the shrineAvas less than one hundred feet in diameter(thirty meters). Around the base was a largeopen square in which the first story stood; flankedby wings and entered through
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