. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Shaft Stylobatc. J Ii XVI.—Greek Dorii Order from the Temple of Theseus, wilh the names of its divisions. AIDS TO EVOLUTION, ETC. I55 was the fear of ostentation at the expense of purityand elegance that all sculpture has been omitted fromthe pediment of the western portico and confined tothe eastern or main entrance. Under Pericles the Doric reached its most sub-lime expression. Yet it was by no means the influ-ence of a single individual which wrought the vic-tory, but simply the natural sequence of events inan extraordi
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Shaft Stylobatc. J Ii XVI.—Greek Dorii Order from the Temple of Theseus, wilh the names of its divisions. AIDS TO EVOLUTION, ETC. I55 was the fear of ostentation at the expense of purityand elegance that all sculpture has been omitted fromthe pediment of the western portico and confined tothe eastern or main entrance. Under Pericles the Doric reached its most sub-lime expression. Yet it was by no means the influ-ence of a single individual which wrought the vic-tory, but simply the natural sequence of events inan extraordinary age. Every great revival in arthas always been preceded by a revival in literature,and Greece was no exception to the rule. Underthe skilful guidance of ^Eschylus, Sophocles, andEuripides dramatic writing had risen to a pointscarcely since surpassed ; history had been mouldedinto graceful form by Herodotus and Thucydides ;and Socrates, Democritus, and Anaxagoras had star-tled the world with strange new thoughts and theo-ries ; while Plato whispered the truths of immortality
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