. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. no situation for the Soup >-Sdkt] (i)lace for spears) would have led to their more continual disjilacement from accident;Hiid secondly, because of the sloping or hemispherical form in the other orders, the foot ofthe spear nuist have immediately slid off. Their origin may probal)ly be found in thepolygonal column, whose sides received a greater play of light by being hollowed out, —»relinement would not be long iuii)erceived by the Greeks.
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. no situation for the Soup >-Sdkt] (i)lace for spears) would have led to their more continual disjilacement from accident;Hiid secondly, because of the sloping or hemispherical form in the other orders, the foot ofthe spear nuist have immediately slid off. Their origin may probal)ly be found in thepolygonal column, whose sides received a greater play of light by being hollowed out, —»relinement would not be long iuii)erceived by the Greeks. 14f). We shall now notice some of the more important Doric edifices, as connected withthe later history of the Doric order, which was that most generally used by the Euro])eanstates of Greece, U]) to their subjugation by the Romans. The temple of Jujjiter I\in-liellenius, at Hgina, is ])robably one of the most ancient in Greece. The story, however, ofIausanias, that it was built by TIvicus, before the war of Jroy, is only useful as showiiigus its high anti(iuity. ( Fi(/. 96.) The j)ro))orti()iis of its columns ami entablature are to be. CllAf. II. uRKCIAN. 65 fuiiiul in ,1 preceding; page. Tlic sculptuie witli wliicli tliis l)nil(ltiij; was decorated is nowat Mimieli. Ilioiiirli, ))erli;i|)s, not so old as the Imilding itself, it is of an antii|nity coevalwith the IVrsian invasion. The name of the architect of this tcini)Ie was Lihon, i f whomno other work is known ; its age is, perhaps, from ahont GOO years before Christ. JheDoric temple at Corinth, of which five columns, with their architrave, are still in existence,is a very early specimen of Grecian architecture. The assertion that it was dedicated to\enus is unsupported by testimony. H7. The Grecian temples in Sicily were erected at periods which it is not easy to fix ;and with respect to them, we can only, from circumstances connected with the island, reasonon the dates to be assigned to them. The founding of the city
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